If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
Interpretation
Difficult lessons may be painful, but they leave a lasting impact on our lives.
This quote by Ray Bradbury suggests that some of our most significant and unforgettable lessons come from difficult or disastrous experiences. It underscores the idea that while such lessons can be painful and challenging, they ultimately contribute to our growth and understanding in profound ways, shaping our character and our approach to life.
In practice
A motivational speaker discussing the importance of learning from failures at a conference.
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)
I never went to college, so I went to the library.
There must be something in books, something we canβt imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You donβt stay for nothing.
I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.
The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.
You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
Total relaxation is the ultimate. That's the moment when one becomes a buddha. That is the moment of realization, enlightenment, christ-consciousness. You cannot be totally relaxed right now. At the innermost core a tension will persist.
The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.
To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.
One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.
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