The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is - to bloom. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”)
Interpretation
Blooming symbolizes personal growth and achievement despite challenges.
This quote reflects on the struggle and effort required to grow and flourish, likening it to the lilac branches weighed down by the beautiful flowers they bear. It emphasizes that, despite the difficulties or burdens that come with blooming, what matters most is the act of blooming itself—realizing one's potential and embracing growth.
In practice
In a motivational speech to encourage students to keep striving despite challenges.
The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is the universal means of solving all knots; and along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox - the single most worthy path of the fearless mind.
Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.
The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy...
A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.
Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.
Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.
If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.
It's about time you admitted that you are a miraculous work of art. You came into this world as a radiant bundle of exuberant riddles. You slipped into this dimension as a shimmering burst of spiral hallelujahs. You blasted into this realm as a lush explosion of ecstatic gratitude. And it is your birthright to fulfill those promises.
What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?
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