To get joy, we must give it and to keep joy, we must scatter it.
Interpretation
Joy is both created and maintained through generosity and sharing.
This quote suggests that joy is not only a personal experience but also a communal one. To truly experience joy, we must share it with others, and by sharing, we ensure that joy continues to exist in our lives. This creates a cycle where joy multiplies; the more we give, the more we receive, highlighting the interconnectedness of human emotions and relationships.
In practice
Using this quote during a speech about community service at a local charity event.
The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be. It's self centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.
Life is made up not necessarily of great sacrifices or high-level duties but of little things. The smiles, the kindnesses, the commitments and obligations and responsibilities that are given habitually and lovingly are the blessings that win and preserve the heart and bring comfort to one's self as we as to others. This is the ministry of service performed by every useful life.
The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be.
The objective of our religious foundations is to teach people that they are hurting themselves when they say they believe something. What we should realize is we know almost nothing about God and therefore we should be eager to search and to learn.
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
Three of my children are medical doctors; they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!
Real happiness lies in that which never comes nor goes, but simply is.
The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it's wanting what you get.
Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.
The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs.
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