“The rush of life envelops everything,
life is like this: heats up and cools down,
it tightens and then loosens, settles down and then unrests.
What she wants from us is courage.
What God wants is to see us
learning to be able
to be more happy,
in the midst of joy,
and even happier
still in the midst of sadness!
Life invents!
We start things
not knowing why,
and since then it loses the power of continuation
because life is everyone’s joint effort,
stirred and seasoned by all.
The most important and beautiful thing in the world is this:
that people are not always the same,
not yet finished,
but they are always changing.
Tune in or out of tune. Greater truth…”
João Guimarães Rosa (1908-1967), Brazilian writer and diplomat. The text is an excerpt from the novel Grande Sertão Veredas.
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