But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that life becomes simpler when one has little at stake.
Ernest Hemingway's quote reflects on the nature of risk and attachment in life. When you have little to lose, decisions may seem less complicated, and one can approach life with a sense of freedom and fearlessness. This perspective can lead to a more liberated existence, though it may also imply a lack of depth in relationships and commitments.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming fears and embracing change.
He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.
How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.
You will find the Divine in the last place, because once you find it, you will not go on searching.
These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: don't over-estimate your own merits. The third is: don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself. And the fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you.
The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn't, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.
I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!
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