Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Interpretation
True happiness is achieved through pushing our limits and expanding our capabilities.
This quote by Leo Rosten emphasizes that happiness is not a passive state but rather a result of actively challenging ourselves and striving to reach our full potential. It suggests that fulfillment comes from engaging both our intellect and emotions to explore the limits of our abilities and capacities.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal development.
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.
The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.
Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past.
The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
Meal isn't over when I'm full. Meal's over when I hate myself.
Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier.
I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.
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