And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Interpretation
Facing difficulties can lead to beautiful outcomes if you maintain a positive outlook.
This quote emphasizes the importance of maintaining a hopeful perspective in challenging situations. It suggests that even when faced with adversity, like rain on a parade, one should look for the potential positives that can arise, symbolized by the rainbow that follows rain; without hardship, beautiful moments would not exist.
In practice
In a motivational speech about resilience during tough times.
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without possessions, eating anything they could get and sleeping anyhow on the ground. St. Francis answered him with that curious and almost stunning shrewdness which the unworldly can sometimes wield like a club of stone. He said, 'If we had any possessions, we should need weapons and laws to defend them.
The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.
I am all for anything that is going to better equip a person who is physically challenged in any way, to have an opportunity to be able to do what they are able to do.
I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.
My legacy is that I stayed on course...from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.
There is power in seeing a face that looks like yours do something, be someone. There is power in moving from the sidelines to the center.
You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.
That is the hope that inspires Christians. We know that every effort to better society, especially when injustice and sin are so ingrained, is an effort that God blesses, that God wants, that God demands of us.
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