The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
Roald DahlRead
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
Interpretation
Everyone has the potential to make a significant impact on the world around them.
This quote by Roald Dahl emphasizes that within every individual lies the innate power and ability to bring about change, whether in their own lives or on a larger scale. It inspires us to tap into our inner strength and take action, reminding us that small efforts can collectively lead to substantial transformations in society.
In practice
In a motivational speech about social responsibility.
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.
I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have stories that deal with death and explain it, as a place to put their fears.
By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one hundred and fifty times. I am suspicious of both facility and speed. Good writing is essentially rewriting. I am positive of this.
You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. "Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful.
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.
Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a liberal or conservative activity; it is a sacred act.
The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.
Happy are those few nations that have not waited till the slow succession of human vicissitudes should, from the extremity of evil, produce a transition to good; but by prudent laws have facilitated the progress from one to the other!
More people are killed by stray bullets every day in America than have been killed by Ebola here. More are dying because of poverty and hunger.
For we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges, that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.
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