a man possessed with peace is always smiling
Interpretation
Inner peace leads to a joyful and contented demeanor.
The quote suggests that a person who has achieved a state of inner peace will naturally exhibit a cheerful and warm disposition. This implies that true happiness stems from within, rather than external circumstances, and that a peaceful existence allows one to approach life with positivity and a smile.
In practice
During a team meeting, a leader could use this quote to encourage a positive work environment.
Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'd stopped loving her, that I'd forgotten her, or that her image had paled; on the contrary; in the form of a quiet nostalgia she remained constantly within me; I longed for her as one longs for something definitively lost.
Facts mean little compared to attitudes. To contradict rumor or sentiment is as futile as arguing against a believer's faith in the Immaculate Conception. You have simply become a victim of faith, Comrade Assistant.
While people are fairly young and the musical composition of their lives is still in its opening bars, they can go about writing it together and sharing motifs (the way Tomas and Sabina exchanged the motif of the bowler hat), but if they meet when they are older, like Franz and Sabina, their musical compositions are more or less complete, and every motif, every object, every word means something different to each of them.
Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.
Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself especially how you choose to think about your situation.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.
The happiest time of my life is now.
The happiest ones are those who have a character which would prefer their services to be unknown to all generations.
Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.
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