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.
Yes, there is a burden of financial insecurity. I don't think you find it in mood. Income is correlated with life satisfaction, so maybe you do find it in life satisfaction. You don't find it in mood, and I think it is very important.
...I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life!
When we fulfill our function, which is to truly love ourselves and share love with others, then true happiness sets in.
That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then youβll always be happy, because itβs always in the now
God is also fully aware that the people you think are perfect are not. _x000D_ And yet we spend so much time and energy comparing ourselves to others-usually comparing our weaknesses to their strengths. This drives us to create expectations for ourselves that are impossible to meet. As a result, we never celebrate our good efforts because they seem to be less than what someone else does
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