Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Interpretation
Investing yourself fully in meaningful work can lead to true happiness.
Dale Carnegie suggests that when life feels dull, the antidote is to immerse yourself in work that resonates with your beliefs and passions. By committing wholeheartedly to a purpose and striving for it, you may discover a profound sense of happiness that you initially thought was unattainable.
In practice
In a motivational speech about finding purpose in work.
When I asked him -Mr.Henry Ford- if he ever worried, he replied: "No. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that every-thing will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can't you say the same thing about your life?
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.
I had thought joy to be rather synonymous with happiness, but it seems now to be far less vulnerable than happiness. Joy seems to be a part of an unconditional wish to live, not holding back because life may not meet our preferences and expectations. Joy seems to be a function of the willingness to accept the whole, and to show up to meet with whatever is there. It has a kind of invincibility that attachment to any particular outcome would deny us.
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
Money won't buy you happiness, but it'll pay for the search
All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance of exclusiveness.
Men are that they might have joy . . . not guilt trips.
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