No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
Interpretation
Life's crucial choices often go unnoticed and shape our destiny quietly.
This quote suggests that the significant decisions we make in life are often subtle and lack dramatic recognition. Unlike grand moments that may be celebrated with noise and fanfare, the decisions that truly shape our lives often occur in silence and are not marked by external validation, emphasizing the importance of introspection and self-awareness in acknowledging our personal journeys.
In practice
During a motivational speech about decision-making in life.
Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.
The devil doesn't stay where there is music.
If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity is aching, the same inexorable agents which prevent a mass from changing suddenly its velocity would likewise resist the force of the new knowledge until time gradually modifies human thought.
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value we are all the same.
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