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.
Beauty comes in many forms-and there is no form more beautiful than you. Just exactly as you are, this minute, right now, without changing a thing...you are beautiful. Beautiful enough to take God's breath away. You do believe this, don't you? Oh, you must. You must. How can I believe in my beauty if you don't believe in yours?
Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.
If you're in a position where you can help other people, there is nothing better in life than helping other people. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!
To see the ball, to run after it, makes me the happiest man in the world
The greatest source of unhappiness comes from inside.
Before you go to bed, write down three 'gratefuls' for the day and three 'did wells' (they can even include something as simple as doing the laundry)-the results can be amazing!
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