If I do my job well, then God will smile on my offspring and on their offspring. I'm sure my father is seeing a blessing in me.
Interpretation
This quote expresses the belief that doing good in one's life positively impacts future generations.
Marvin Gaye reflects on the importance of hard work and integrity, suggesting that by successfully fulfilling his responsibilities, he not only benefits himself but also his children and grandchildren. He implies a spiritual connection, insinuating that a higher power blesses those who lead a virtuous life, thereby creating a legacy of goodness that extends beyond his own time.
In practice
In a family gathering to inspire hard work among siblings.
I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.
LIVE for LIFE, but let live everybody
I don't make records for pleasure. I did when I was a younger artist, but I don't today. I record so that I can feed people what they need, what they feel. Hopefully, I record so that I can help someone overcome a bad time
Are thing really gettin' better like the newspaper said/What else is new my friend, besides what I read/Can't find no work, can't find no job my friend/Money is tighter than it's ever been/Say man, I just don't understand/What's going on across this land
War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.
For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.
More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.
I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world.
Through devotion, your family cares become more peaceful, mutual love between husband and wife becomes more sincere, the service we owe to the prince more faithful, and our work, no matter what it is, becomes more pleasant and agreeable.
By helping a woman, you help a family.
He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.
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