No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
Interpretation
Life's crucial choices often go unnoticed and shape our destiny quietly.
This quote suggests that the significant decisions we make in life are often subtle and lack dramatic recognition. Unlike grand moments that may be celebrated with noise and fanfare, the decisions that truly shape our lives often occur in silence and are not marked by external validation, emphasizing the importance of introspection and self-awareness in acknowledging our personal journeys.
In practice
During a motivational speech about decision-making in life.
Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful comes death on a strange hour unannounced, unplanned for like a scaring over-friendly guest you've brought to bed Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws
If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.
Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?
Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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