For me there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer, because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of questioning and the value of curiosity over seeking definitive answers.
P. L. Travers expresses the idea that life is filled with unanswered questions, and rather than striving to find answers, one should embrace the questions themselves. The quote suggests that a life of inquiry is enriching and that the journey of questioning can lead to deeper understanding and appreciation of existence.
In practice
In a discussion about personal growth, this quote can remind attendees to embrace uncertainty.
Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.
Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?
Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.
Your religion is where your love is.
The more I learn about God, the more aware I become of what I don’t know about him.
Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
Whatever can die is beautiful — more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world. Do you understand me?
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