No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that life is a gradual process of self-discovery and awakening to our true potential.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery's quote reflects the idea that throughout our lives, we undergo a continuous transformation, revealing parts of ourselves that we may not have previously acknowledged. The phrase 'to live is to be slowly born' emphasizes that each experience contributes to our growth and understanding, enabling us to discover new aspects of our identity that were previously hidden or unknown.
In practice
During a motivational speech about personal growth.
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.
There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.
The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need.
Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.
What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,' but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the end.
Multiculturalism isn't just a buzzword; it's not just something to debate - I am multiculturalism.
If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn't come through - You only trusted God to meet your agenda.
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