...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.
Interpretation
Filling your life with laughter leaves no space for sadness.
This quote emphasizes the importance of maintaining a positive attitude in life. By choosing to fill our days with laughter and joy, we can push out negative emotions and experiences, leading to a happier existence. It suggests that a joyful demeanor can significantly influence our overall well-being and perspective.
In practice
In a motivational speech about maintaining a positive outlook during tough times.
But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the passing of time, yet happy ones could never be recreated - not with the same joy. Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.
What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.
If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to look for it.
There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.
Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder
Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.
As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.
Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past.
I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.
I like the rain before it falls. of course there is no such thing, she said. That's why it's my favorite. Something can still make you happy, can't it, even if it isn't real.
Each human being has the right to seek out joy, joy being understood as something which makes one content - not necessarily that which makes others content.
If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?
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