It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, and it always comes with years, and the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through the tears.
Interpretation
True character is revealed during difficult times, not when times are easy.
This quote emphasizes the idea that a person's true worth is shown by how they respond to adversity. While it is easy to be cheerful and pleasant when everything is going well, real strength and nobility come from maintaining a positive spirit even when faced with hardships and challenges. The ability to smile through pain and maintain hope amidst trouble signifies a deeper, more admirable character worthy of recognition and respect.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a graduation speech to inspire students facing future challenges.
Sweep up the debris of decaying faith; _x000D_ Sweep down the cobwebs of worn-out out beliefs, _x000D_ And throw your soul wide open to the light of reason and of knowledge. _x000D_ Be not afraid _x000D_ To thrust aside half-truths and grasp the whole.
I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers keeper, And I will fight his fights; And speak the words for beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right.
A weed is but an unloved flower.
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Do you wish the world were happy? Then remember day by day, just to scatter seeds of kindness as you pass along the way. . . .
The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force.
Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck.
Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
I see a wonderful future in a very uncertain world. If we will cling to our values, if we will build on our inheritance, if we will walk in obedience before the Lord, if we will simply live the gospel we will be blessed in a magnificent and wonderful way. We will be looked upon as a peculiar people who have found the key to a peculiar happiness.
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