The ability to lead a happy life is made, not found
Interpretation
Happiness is a choice that we actively create rather than something we passively discover.
This quote by Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes that leading a happy life is not a matter of luck or circumstance but rather a conscious effort that requires intention and action. It suggests that individuals have the power to shape their own happiness through their choices and attitudes, encouraging a proactive approach to well-being.
In practice
Sharing this quote at a motivational seminar on personal development.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
The feeling of being happy or unhappy rarely depends on our absolute state, but on our perception of the situation, on our capacity to be satisfied with what we have.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the knowledge that we belong to God and have found in God our refuge and our safety and that nothing, not even death, can take God away from us.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.
When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!
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