Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.
Azar NafisiRead
None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.
Interpretation
We cannot escape the negativity in the world, but we can choose how we respond to it.
This quote highlights the inevitability of encountering the darker aspects of life and the world around us. It emphasizes that while external negativity is unavoidable, our internal attitude towards these challenges defines our experience and response, suggesting that a positive or resilient mindset can help mitigate the impact of external turmoil.
In practice
This quote can be used during a motivational speech to encourage resilience.
Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.
After the rigged Iranian presidential elections in 2009, the Islamic regime attacked the 'humanities' as the main source of protests, the most effective tool used by the West, especially America, to corrupt and incite Iranian youth, and finally closed down all the Humanities departments in Iran's universities.
The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality.
I believe that it is only through empathy, that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident, a Rwandan child or an Iraqi prisoner, becomes real to me and not just passing news. And it is at times like this when I ask myself, am I prepared - like Huck Finn - to give up Sunday school heaven for the kind of hell that Huck chose?
I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.
It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.
Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.
Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.
Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.
Let fools the studious despise,_x000D_ _x000D_ There's nothing lost by being wise.
O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.
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