...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.
I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy . . . Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals,_x000D_ seeks nothing but rational values, and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.
Life is supposed to be fun. It's not a job or occupation. We're here only once and we should have a bit of a laugh.
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