A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
Interpretation
A single event can reveal unexpected aspects of our personality or potential.
This quote emphasizes that particular experiences can catalyze profound transformations within us, unveiling parts of ourselves that we might not have been aware of. It suggests that life is full of surprises and that a unique moment can lead us to discover latent traits or strengths we didn't know we possessed.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing life's challenges.
Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.
Attitude is a paintbrush. It colors everything!
Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.
In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contadictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.
When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.
When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.
What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.
Do you want your life to truly take off? Then change your idea about it. About you. Think, speak and act as the God You Are.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
In terms of being able to renew my nation, to be able to be able to bring back a devastated country, to restore hope to our people, to lift women and to give them a new horizon, a new ambition and new dreams, in respect of all of that, I think we've accomplished it, and I feel very good about that.
Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.
Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.
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