Everything is a present. Everything. This I learned to be thankful for everything.
Alice Herz-SommerRead
I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing
Interpretation
Laughter and optimism are crucial for a joyful life.
In this quote, Alice Herz-Sommer highlights the importance of maintaining an optimistic outlook and the role of laughter in enhancing our well-being. She suggests that embracing positivity and finding joy in life situations can lead to a more fulfilling and happy existence.
In practice
During a motivational speech about resilience and happiness.
Everything is a present. Everything. This I learned to be thankful for everything.
When you are optimistic, when you are not complaining, when you look at the good side of your life, everybody loves you.
I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate.
Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things.
In any case, life is beautiful, extremely beautiful. And when you are old you appreciate it more. When you are older you think, you remember, you care and you appreciate. You are thankful for everything. For everything.
I know about the bad, but I look at the good thing.
I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces.
I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.
When we understand the best way to achieve all our goals is to assist others in achieving their goals, we will find the key to lasting happiness.
O ye gods, grant unto me to have little and to want nothing.
It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.
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