When it becomes a bloody reality, we have to come together and look at what can be done to return to the order of peace, ... There is no alternative to it.
Shimon PeresRead
You're as young as your dreams, not as old as your calendar
Interpretation
Your youthful spirit is determined by your aspirations, not your age.
This quote by Shimon Peres emphasizes the importance of dreams and aspirations in determining one's vitality and outlook on life. It suggests that age is merely a number, and the true measure of one's youth lies in the vigor and ambition of their dreams rather than their chronological age.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing one's passions.
When it becomes a bloody reality, we have to come together and look at what can be done to return to the order of peace, ... There is no alternative to it.
I didn't plan to be a politician. The founder of our country, David Ben-Gurion, called me from the kibbutz to serve in the underground. We were short of manpower, short of arms. I was 24 years old. I was supposed to serve my country for one or two years. I am 89 years old this year, and I keep going.
The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.
The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.
The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage.
Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.
Anita Roddick was amazing. Her presence in a room was full of light, and everything she worked to achieve still resonates now.
When we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.
I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.
So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
I just always loved comedy and I really wanted to be good at it. And it was heartbreaking, 'cause I started and I wasn't good at it. I was only 17-years-old, so I had a lot to learn about life in general. But I just kept on trying. I was young enough and stupid enough and I had no other choice. I had nothing else I was good at.
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