Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams._x000D_ _x000D_ Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Interpretation
Happiness is about the journey and goals we pursue, not a specific destination.
This quote emphasizes that happiness is found in the process of striving towards our dreams rather than reaching a particular endpoint. It invites us to view happiness as an ongoing journey defined by our aspirations and the paths we choose, rather than a fixed state that we achieve once we reach a certain point in life.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing goals.
A person is either himself or not himself; is either rooted in his existence or is a fabrication; has either found his humanhood or is still playing with masks and roles and status symbols. And nobody is more aware of this difference (although unconsciously) than a child. Only an authentic person can evoke a good response in the core of the other person; only person is resonant to person.
We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.
Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
"Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.
At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teachβit is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel.
I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.
Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.
Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.