All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.
Walt WhitmanRead
Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
Interpretation
Happiness is found in the present moment and in your current surroundings.
Walt Whitman's quote emphasizes the importance of appreciating the present moment rather than seeking happiness externally or in the future. It encourages individuals to focus on their current surroundings and experiences, suggesting that fulfillment and joy can be found right here and now if one chooses to recognize and embrace it.
In practice
During a motivational speech about well-being.
All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.
Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between people, and their beliefs - in religion, literature, colleges and schools- democracy in all public and private life.
In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Now, dearest comrade, lift me to your face,_x000D_ _x000D_ We must separate awhileHere! take from my lips this kiss._x000D_ _x000D_ Whoever you are, I give it especially to you;_x000D_ _x000D_ So long!And I hope we shall meet again.
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
Happiness and success in life are not the result of what we have, but rather of how we live. What we do with the things we have makes the biggest difference in the quality of life.
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!
Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of gratitude. I now allow this gratitude to fill my heart, my body, my mind, my consciousness, my very being. This gratitude radiates out from me in all directions, touching everything in my world, and returns to me as more to be grateful for. The more gratitude I feel, the more I am aware that the supply is endless.
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
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