Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
Tennessee WilliamsRead
If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
Interpretation
Embracing both our flaws and strengths is essential for a balanced life.
Tennessee Williams suggests that our struggles and imperfections, represented as 'demons', are intrinsically linked to our virtues and positive traits, referenced as 'angels'. To rid oneself of the negative aspects of life may also mean sacrificing the good, as they balance each other and contribute to our overall identity and humanity.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing one's true self.
Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die — with my hand in the hand of some nice-looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch.
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.
In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.
In a world wounded by conflicts, where violence is justified in God's name, it's important to repeat that religion can never become a vehicle of hatred, it can never be used in God's name to justify violence.
With Christ, it is not how much we give, but what we do not give that is the real test.
Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
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