Stones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I'll build a castle.
Interpretation
Challenges can be transformed into opportunities with perseverance.
This quote by Fernando Pessoa suggests that obstacles or difficulties we encounter in life can be valuable resources in our journey. Instead of discarding these 'stones', the speaker chooses to collect them, implying that with time and effort, these challenges can be transformed into something magnificent β a castle, symbolizing success and achievement.
In practice
Use this quote in a motivational speech to inspire people facing adversity.
I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write any more, not to think any more, but to allow the fever of speaking to make me sleepy, and with my eyes closed, like a cat, I play with everything I could have said.
It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking.
We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of mist; the false, the one we love when we live with others, the practical, the useful, the one we end up by being put in a coffin.
I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.
My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.
The chill of what I won't feel gnaws at my present heart.
I'm hopeful that at the end of my life, someone like Frederick Douglass would look at my life and say, 'Well done: you've proven yourself to be worthy of the legacy we left you.'
No volleyball play can begin without a serve, and the serve is the only technique that is totally under your control. In other endeavors, you cannot succeed without believing in yourself, and that belief is completely under your control.
Coaches will say that it's not important for their team to run more, and they prefer to make games the right way. I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.
If we really want something done, it is best to do it ourselves.
After each game, I want to be able to say: I gave it all I could, I gave it my best.
You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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