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.
A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.
I'm aware of my old plays and occasionally think about them, but I'm much more anxious about finding the next play.
The roots of Silicon Valley are full of stories of immigrants and minority groups who experienced bigotry and made it anyway. Why should women be any different?
Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you.
I watched Muhammad Ali, how when he would speak, how it was such a thing of beauty. It sounded so wonderful. And I wanted to be like him.
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