Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow.
Interpretation
It's okay to feel sad and allow yourself to grieve, but you must gather your strength to face challenges again the next day.
This quote emphasizes the importance of acknowledging our emotions, like sorrow, as a part of the human experience. It encourages us to take the time to feel our pain, while also reminding us that resilience is key; after we've allowed ourselves to experience sadness, we must pick ourselves up and continue to fight against what may bring us down, ultimately highlighting how our own emotional struggles can be our greatest adversaries.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming hardship.
The identity cannot be compartmentalized; it cannot be split in halves or thirds, nor have any clearly defined set of boundaries. I do not have several identities, I only have one, made of all the elements that have shaped its unique proportions.
We are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us just as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its future.
What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and several cultural traditions. It is precisely this that defines my identity. Would I exist more authentically if I cut off a part of myself
During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.
A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.
People sometimes imagine that just because they have access to so many newspapers, radio and TV channels, they will get an infinity of different opinions. Then they discover that things are just the opposite: the power of these loudspeakers only amplifies the opinion prevalent at a certain time, to the point where it covers any other opinion.
How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.
Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'
You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
There is something magical about running; after a certain distance, it transcends the body. Then a bit further, it transcends the mind. A bit further yet, and what you have before you, laid bare, is the soul.
Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!
I think that racism is ugly and so unfair, and I believe that we all need one another.
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