Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
Interpretation
Choose from the blessings you have and find contentment in them.
This quote emphasizes the importance of recognizing and choosing from the positive aspects of life that are available to us. It suggests that true happiness and fulfillment come not from seeking more than we have, but from appreciating what is already present in our lives and finding contentment within those choices.
In practice
During a motivational speech about gratitude, one might use this quote to highlight the importance of appreciating present blessings.
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.
Music has given me peace. I can remember occasions when music instantly tranquillized my _x000D_ mind, when I was greatly agitated over something. Music has helped me to overcome anger.
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
Happiness cannot come from hatred or anger. Nobody can say, 'Today I am happy because this morning I was angry.' On the contrary, people feel uneasy and sad and say, 'Today I am not very happy, because I lost my temper this morning.'
When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
Each in the most hidden sack kept the lost jewels of memory, intense love, secret nights and permanent kisses, the fragment of public or private happiness. A few, the wolves, collected thighs, other men loved the dawn scratching mountain ranges or ice floes, locomotives, numbers. For me happiness was to share singing, praising, cursing, crying with a thousand eyes. I ask forgiveness for my bad ways: my life had no use on earth.
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