The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
Roald DahlRead
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
Interpretation
Positive thoughts reflect in your appearance and demeanor.
This quote by Roald Dahl suggests that maintaining good and positive thoughts can have a profound effect on your outward appearance and how others perceive you. When you think positively, it radiates joy and beauty, creating an aura of loveliness that reflects not only on your face but on your interactions with the world.
In practice
In a motivational speech about maintaining a positive outlook in life.
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.
I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have stories that deal with death and explain it, as a place to put their fears.
By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one hundred and fifty times. I am suspicious of both facility and speed. Good writing is essentially rewriting. I am positive of this.
You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. "Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful.
I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
It turns out that the process of working toward a goal, participating in a valued and challenging activity, is as important to well-being as its attainment.
Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemizβd, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!
Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.
The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.
What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
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