You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.
Interpretation
Even in despair, there is hope and potential for happiness awaiting at the end.
This quote by Joan Baez conveys that even during the darkest times filled with despair, there exists a glimmer of hope and a possibility of finding happiness. It reflects the resilience of the human spirit, suggesting that after experiencing deep sorrow, one can eventually emerge into a brighter, more fulfilling state of being.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming adversity.
I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of humor, every faculty available to you...because no one has the right to take the life of another human being.
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.
That's all nonviolence is - organized love.
To sing is to love and affirm, _x000D_ to fly and to soar, _x000D_ to coast into the hearts of the people _x000D_ who listen _x000D_ to tell them that life is to live, _x000D_ that love is there, _x000D_ that nothing is a promise, _x000D_ but that beauty exists, _x000D_ and must be hunted for and found.
The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
Now,I'm no scientist,but I know what endorphins are. They're tiny little magical elves that swim through your blood stream and tell funny jokes to each other. When they reach your brain,you hear what they're saying and that boosts your health and happiness. "Knock Knock... Who's There?.. Little endorphin... Little endorphin who?... Little Endorphin Annie." And then the endorphins laugh and then you laugh. See? Its Science.
Iβm really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts
For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
I learned that, with grief, you have to take it one day at a time and learn how to find the happiness amid the heartbreak.
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