You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.
Interpretation
You have control over your own happiness and self-identity.
This quote emphasizes the idea that individuals are responsible for their own happiness and well-being. It suggests that the power to shape one's own life and emotional state lies within each person, highlighting the importance of self-ownership and personal agency in achieving true contentment.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire others to take charge of their happiness.
There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!
The little black dress is the true friend...she travels with you...is patient and constant...you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.
One of the most important things about fashion is to dress as well as you can, look as attractive as you can, and at the same time be comfortable with yourself. Be easy about your clothes; forget about them.
All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.
You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.
A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.
I've taken my fun where I've found it.
The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.
I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'
I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all the acquisitions and accomplishments- they run you down in the end.
I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do.
Enthusiasm Rules his inner world. Determination Rules his outer world. Therefore Happiness has become His real name.
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