On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.
Interpretation
Trusting in life can lead to positive outcomes and responses.
This quote by Albert Camus suggests that when we have faith in the journey of life, especially during our good days, we open ourselves up to receiving positive experiences and answers that align with our trust. It emphasizes the importance of a positive mindset and belief in the underlying goodness of existence.
In practice
A motivational speaker can use this quote to encourage audiences to embrace faith in their personal journeys.
The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.
The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds.
Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny this force crushing me.
Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.
At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.
Endlessly amused by people's minds.
Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful.
You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!
For some are in the habit of carrying about the name in wicked guile, while they still practice things unworthy of God. You must flee these as you would wild beasts. For they are ravening dogs, who bite secretly, against whom you must be on your guard, since they are men who can scarcely be cured.
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