You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.
Interpretation
True suffering often lies beneath the surface and cannot be measured by outward appearances.
This quote by Salman Rushdie suggests that external indicators of pain or injury do not accurately reflect the depth or severity of what someone might be experiencing internally. It speaks to the complexity of human suffering and encourages a deeper empathy towards others, reminding us that what is visible may only be a fraction of a person's true struggles.
In practice
In a speech about mental health awareness, one might use this quote to illustrate that mental struggles are often hidden.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in his development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever he had to make an important decision.
I can't imagine not being in a phase where I'm trying to understand something or create something. That's the essence of life.
To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.
Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?
It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It legitimated the breaking of the remaining opposition to the commodification of everything, and it tended to wipe away all the negatives of capitalism on the grounds that the benefits outweighed, by far, the harm.
What I do know is that disabled people shouldn't be responsible for curing non-disabled people of their ignorance.
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