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.
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It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!
Surely joy is the condition of life.
Enthusiasm Rules his inner world. Determination Rules his outer world. Therefore Happiness has become His real name.
Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
I just love life. I love people. I love to write, that's my gift. I love to sing. I have a good attitude. I like to think I shine from the inside.
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