Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention.
Interpretation
Embrace life's experiences and the beauty of the world despite its challenges.
This quote encourages individuals to persevere through life's difficulties while appreciating the remarkable experiences the earth offers. It suggests that while life may present heart-wrenching moments, there is a continual flow of wonders if one chooses to remain attentive and open to them.
In practice
During a speech about resilience, you might say, 'Remember the words of Salman Rushdie: live on and survive, for the earth gives forth wonders.'
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
We are living in a science-fiction nightmare where children are gasping for breath on bad-air days because somebody gave money to a politician. And my children and the kids of millions of other Americans can no longer go fishing and eat their catch because somebody gave money to a politician.
I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
Peering down into the water where the morning sun fashioned wheels of light, coronets fanwise in which lay trapped each twig, each grain of sediment, long flakes and blades of light in the dusty water sliding away like optic strobes where motes sifted and spun.
A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.
The oak tree:_x000D_ _x000D_ not interested_x000D_ _x000D_ in cherry blossoms.
Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.
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