Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves ?Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here ?Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change ?
Interpretation
The quote encourages people to stop focusing on negativity and instead appreciate the beauty around them.
In this quote, Donald Sutherland emphasizes the importance of positivity and finding hope in our surroundings. He challenges the listener to abandon negative thoughts and to recognize the beauty in the world, suggesting that a shift in perspective can lead to a more uplifting and constructive way of living.
In practice
During a motivational speech to inspire students to stay positive.
I was obsessed with not knowing what happened after you were dead. And I sat or kneeled for a whole day with my head against the wall, trying to figure it out. But I couldn't, and I just said, 'Okay.' And then it was nothingness.
Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.
Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.
You get the most approval when you care the least about it.
If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.
Much as we wish, not one of us can bring back yesterday or shape tomorrow. Only today is ours, and it will not be ours for long, and once it is gone it will never in all time be ours again. Thou only knowest what it holds in store for us, yet even we know something of what it will hold. The chance to speak the truth, to show mercy, to ease another’s burden. The chance to resist evil, to remember all the good times and good people of our past, to be brave, to be strong, to be glad.
It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.
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