And no matter what, there's not one thing in this world *or* the next that we can do or hope or guess at or wish or pray that can change it or help it one iota. Because whatever is, is. That's all. And all there is now is to be ready for it, strong enough for it, whatever it may be. That's all. That's all that matters. It's all that matters because it's all that's possible.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes acceptance of reality and the importance of being prepared for whatever life brings.
James Agee's quote expresses a deep philosophical perspective on the nature of existence and acceptance. It suggests that there are certain aspects of life that cannot be changed or influenced by our desires, wishes, or prayers. Instead of resisting this reality, we should focus on being mentally and emotionally prepared to face whatever comes our way, recognizing that acceptance and strength in the present moment are vital.
In practice
In a motivational speech about resilience, this quote can be used to encourage people to accept their circumstances.
He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive . . .
Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?
In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.
It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.
For in the immediate world, everything is to be discerned, for him who can discern it, and central and simply, without either dissection into science, or digestion into art, but with the whole of consciousness, seeking to perceive it as it stands: so that the aspect of a street in sunlight can roar in the heart of itself as a symphony, perhaps as no symphony can: and all of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiation of what is.
By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth, lying, on quilts, on the grass in a summer evening, among the sounds of the night. May God bless my people, my uncle, my aunt, my mother, my good father, oh, remember them kindly in their time of trouble; and in the hour of their taking away.
I always say that my favorite people to interview are the people who are at the beginning and the ends of their lives because they have two alternate perspectives of the world, and neither of them are less profound.
You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you.
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
Thought is the primary energy and vibration that emanated from God and is thus the creator of life, electrons, atoms, and all forms of energy.
Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass_x000D_ _x000D_ With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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