And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
Interpretation
The quote expresses the excitement and potential that comes with a new year filled with new experiences.
Rainer Maria Rilke's quote reflects the anticipation and hope that accompanies the arrival of a new year. It emphasizes the idea that each new year brings with it opportunities for growth, discovery, and the chance to experience things that we have not yet encountered. This sentiment encourages us to embrace the unknown and to look forward to the possibilities the future holds.
In practice
During a New Year's Eve celebration, this quote could be shared to inspire hope and excitement for the upcoming year.
Spring has again returned. _x000D_ _x000D_ The Earth is like a child that knows many poems._x000D_ _x000D_ Many, O so many. For the hardship_x000D_ _x000D_ of such long learning she receives the prize._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Strict was her teacher. _x000D_ _x000D_ The white in the old man's beard pleases us._x000D_ _x000D_ Now, what to call green, to call blue,_x000D_ _x000D_ we dare to ask: She knows, She knows!
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
The only journey is the one within.
Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws. They carry strange customs with them and demand room for bold and audacious action. The future speaks ruthlessly through them. They change the world.
They have eliminated rigidity, both physical and psychological, in order to support more fluid processes whereby temporary teams are created to deal with specific and ever-changing needs. They have simplified roles into minimal categories; they have knocked down walls and created workplaces where people, ideas, and information circulate freely.
Many of us believed that Black Lives Matter would move this country to not only reckon with white racism but to usher in new laws and practices that would curb vigilantism and law enforcement violence. But, instead, white nationalism was nurtured and began to take root among the American people.
Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind.
Yes, its one of the basic truths of the universe,....Things don't disappear. They just change, and change and change again.
If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news.
Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.
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