To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
Interpretation
Cultivating happiness is key to a long and fulfilling life.
The quote by Malcolm Forbes emphasizes the importance of actively fostering happiness within oneself and sharing that positivity with others. It suggests that a vital component of a long and joyful life is the ability to not only seek happiness for oneself but also to radiate it outwardly, thus creating a ripple effect of joy and satisfaction in one's environment.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a wellness workshop to inspire attendees to focus on their inner happiness.
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.
The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.
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.
One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.
I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
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