Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.
Interpretation
Joy enhances our reality by bringing forth positivity and abundance from emptiness.
This quote by Rainer Maria Rilke emphasizes the transformative power of joy. It suggests that joy is not merely a reaction to existing circumstances but rather a creative force that can manifest positivity and abundance from a void, enriching our lives and experiences in profound ways.
In practice
In a motivational speech on achieving inner peace, this quote can inspire attendees to seek joy within themselves.
Spring has again returned. _x000D_ _x000D_ The Earth is like a child that knows many poems._x000D_ _x000D_ Many, O so many. For the hardship_x000D_ _x000D_ of such long learning she receives the prize._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Strict was her teacher. _x000D_ _x000D_ The white in the old man's beard pleases us._x000D_ _x000D_ Now, what to call green, to call blue,_x000D_ _x000D_ we dare to ask: She knows, She knows!
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
The only journey is the one within.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
If we can accept as true that life circumstances are not the keys to happiness, we'll be greatly empowered to pursue happiness for ourselves.
I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
When we live in the spirit of gratitude, there will be much happiness in our life. The one who is grateful is the one who has much happiness while the one who is ungrateful will not be able to have happiness.
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
If the ingredients for happiness are not within a person, no material success or entertainment or platinum credit cards can make that person smile.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
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