Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales.
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What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.
Interpretation
Facing and managing challenges is more important than evading them.
This quote emphasizes the significance of resilience and adaptability in the face of adversity. Rather than focusing on the ability to evade problems, it highlights the importance of how one responds to difficulties, suggesting that true strength lies in coping with challenges rather than avoiding them altogether.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to encourage perseverance during tough times.
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales.
For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than his surface to others. There are few demands to be met, and no commitment is required. Marriage, on the other hand, closes the door. Your existence is confined to a narrow space in which you are constantly forced to reveal yourself β and therefore, constantly obliged to look into yourself, to examine your own depths.
He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he was fulfilling his destiny. As he put it in his journal that night: If I mean to save my life, then I have to come within an inch of destroying it.
People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.
Bodies count, of course - they count more than we're willing to admit - but we don't fall in love with bodies, we fall in love with each other. We all know that, but the moment we go beyond a catalogue of surface qualities and appearances, words begin to fail us, to crumble apart in mystical confusions and cloudy, unsubstantial metaphors.
At that point, Noriko finally breaks down and begins to cry sobbing into her hands as the floodgates open - this young woman who has suffered in silence for so long, this good woman who refuse to believe she's good, for only the good doubt their own goodness, which is what makes them good in the first place. The bad know they are good, but the good know nothing. They spend their lives forgiving others, but they can't forgive themselves.
When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.
The masters say if you create an auspicious condition in your body and your environment then meditation and realization will automatically arise.
If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable.
True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice.
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