Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.
Interpretation
The quote reflects the evolution of beliefs over time, emphasizing the importance of past convictions.
Jorge Amado's quote suggests that an individual's beliefs can change as they grow and gain new perspectives. However, it highlights the significance of those past beliefs in shaping who we are and acknowledges that, even if we no longer hold those beliefs, they were meaningful at the time they were held.
In practice
In a personal development seminar to highlight the importance of growth and changing views.
He owned a whole world full of memories, of lovely moments relived and happy recollections. I'm not saying he was happy or that he didn't suffer. He suffered very much, but he did not despair; he still drew nourishment from what he had been given. But the sadness never left him. Happiness needs more than memories of the past to feed on; it also needs dreams of the future.
That's the very reason why love is eternal, because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains.
Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.
I believe that she has the kind of magic that causes revolutions and promotes great discoveries. Thereβs nothing I enjoy more than to observe Gabriela in the midst of a group of people. Do you know what she reminds me of? A fragrant rose in a bouquet of artificial flowers.
Spirituality is rebellion; religiousness is orthodoxy. Spirituality is individuality; religiousness is just remaining part of the crowd psychology. Religiousness keeps you a sheep, and spirituality is a lion's roar.
I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost."
Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?
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