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.
I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
People come to the stadium to forget their lives for 90 minutes, and it's up to us to give them satisfaction; to get them out of their chairs and to fall asleep with stars in their eyes.
My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.
We were all born carrying a promise -- a promise to make the world better -- and there's a yearning to make good on that promise that none of us can suppress forever.
Anita Roddick was amazing. Her presence in a room was full of light, and everything she worked to achieve still resonates now.
The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.
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