Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
Interpretation
Life offers continuous opportunities for renewal and change, regardless of endings.
In this quote, Andre Gide emphasizes the cyclical nature of life where every ending can also represent a new beginning. He invites us to view lifeβs transitions not merely as conclusions, but as fresh opportunities that can lead to growth and new experiences, encouraging an optimistic perspective on change.
In practice
Use this quote in a graduation speech to inspire students about future opportunities.
Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.
If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.
We must cultivate a universal responsibility toward each other and extend it to the planet that we have to share
When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
If I ask you to plunge into the Ganga or to jump from the roof of a house, meaning it all for your good, could you do even that without any hesitations Just think of it even now; otherwise don't rush forward on the spur of the moment to accept me as your Guru.
We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.
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