People often ask us what we get by our frequent travel to countries. I want to tell them we do not travel to have fun; we travel to build our relationship with other countries, and it is because of our ties with these countries that we were able to rescue 7,000 people from Yemen.
Interpretation
Traveling fosters connections with other nations and cultures.
In this quote, Sushma Swaraj emphasizes the importance of international travel not just for leisure, but as a means to strengthen relationships with other countries. This relationship-building is critical, as it can lead to collaboration and assistance during crises, exemplified by the successful rescue of 7,000 people from Yemen.
In practice
In a speech about fostering international relations, this quote would perfectly illustrate the importance of diplomatic efforts.
India believes that the world is a family, and the best means of resolution is shared discourse. A family is shaped by love and is not transactional; a family is nurtured by consideration, not greed; a family believes in harmony not jealousy.
I view everything in the context of Lord Krishna's will, and for me, it is fine if things go in my favour or against.
My husband is an opposition MP. Our political alliance may have fallen through, but our matrimonial alliance is intact.
Just as 'Islam' literally means 'peace,' none of the 99 names of Allah mean violence. Similarly, every religion in the world stands for peace, compassion, and brotherhood.
I told him the truth, that I loved him and didn't regret anything about our lives together. But do we ever 'tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God' as my father used to say, to those we love? Or even to ourselves? Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?
Marriage was ordained for a remedy and to increase the world and for the man to help the woman and the woman the man, with all love and kindness.
When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.
You took the best, so why not take the rest?
I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.
It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.
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