We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a desire to leave behind difficult circumstances in search of better times.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's quote reflects the human instinct to seek positivity and hope in the face of adversity. It emphasizes the importance of moving away from distressing situations and pursuing a brighter, more fulfilling existence, symbolized by 'sunshine'.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming challenges and seeking a better future.
Don't be so anxious about it,' she laughed. 'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do; I never got the trick of it.' She looked down at him, shy and fatigued. 'So here we are. I told you years ago that I had the makings of Cinderella.' He took her hand; she drew it back instinctively and then replaced it in his. 'Beg your pardon. Not even used to being touched. But I'm not afraid of you, if you stay quiet and don't move suddenly.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."
The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.
But you can love more than just one person, can't you?
A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the sea far off and the air blew full of crackling thunder. The table cloths blew around the pillars. They blew and blew and blew. The flags twisted around the red chairs like live things, the banners were ragged, the corners of the table tore off through the burbling billowing ends of the cloths.
Never put a question mark where God has put a period. When something is over and done, let it go and move on to the next chapter of your life.
A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.
If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear. People who can open to the web of life that called us into being
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
People say to you, 'you've changed', or something like that, well, I hope, for the sake of God, that you have changed, because I don't want to be the same person all my life. I want to be growing, I want to be expanding. I want to be changing. Because animate things change, inanimate things don&'t change. Dead things don't change. And the heart should be alive, it should be changing, it should be moving, it should be growing, its knowledge should be expanding.
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