Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Interpretation
True appreciation of happiness often comes after it is lost.
This quote by Maxim Gorky emphasizes that happiness may seem insignificant when we possess it, but its true value becomes apparent only when we experience its absence. It serves as a reminder to cherish joyful moments and recognize their worth before they slip away.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a motivational speech about cherishing life's moments.
If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.
What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.
Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that.
Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.
The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
You donβt need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient.
Video games are meant to be just one thing: Fun! Fun for everyone.
As I get, I give. Giving as you get is critical. It has everything to do with being happy for yourself, and making others happy is the cause of making yourself happy, and itβs the cycle of giving and getting.
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