Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.
Interpretation
Amidst challenges and difficulties, we can find joy and beauty in our dreams.
This quote emphasizes the idea that it is often in the face of adversity and challenge that we truly appreciate the joys and dreams in our lives. The contrast between difficulty and happiness highlights how the beauty of these positive experiences becomes more apparent when we navigate through tough times, allowing us to savor them deeply.
In practice
This quote can serve as inspiration during a difficult speech about overcoming challenges.
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.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
Think well. Speak well. Do well. These three things, through the mercy of God, will make a man go to Heaven.
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there.
Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life.
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
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