The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
Anais NinRead
I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
Interpretation
True revolution starts from within ourselves and affects society as a whole.
Anais Nin's quote emphasizes the idea that profound personal transformation is the foundation for societal change. When individuals undergo deep, meaningful changes in their beliefs and behaviors, these shifts ripple outward, influencing the collective experience of their communities and fostering a more substantial, lasting revolution in the world.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a motivational speech about personal growth and its impact on society.
The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.
We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.
The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.
We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted.
Whether or not you call it Black Lives Matter, whether or not you put a hashtag in front of it, whether or not you call it the Movement for Black Lives, all of that is irrelevant. Because there was resistance before Black Lives Matter, and there will be resistance after Black Lives Matter.
They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.
If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.
My message is really that racism has no place in the hearts and minds of our children.
There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.
Although you may be old or sick, it's not too late to take stock and ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.
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