Everything is a present. Everything. This I learned to be thankful for everything.
Alice Herz-SommerRead
When you are optimistic, when you are not complaining, when you look at the good side of your life, everybody loves you.
Interpretation
Optimism and a positive outlook lead to greater acceptance and love from others.
This quote highlights the idea that maintaining an optimistic perspective and focusing on the positive aspects of life can significantly improve how we are perceived by others. When we refrain from complaining and instead choose to see the brighter side, we create an aura of positivity that attracts love and admiration from those around us.
In practice
Using this quote in a motivational speech about overcoming challenges.
Everything is a present. Everything. This I learned to be thankful for everything.
I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate.
I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing
Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things.
In any case, life is beautiful, extremely beautiful. And when you are old you appreciate it more. When you are older you think, you remember, you care and you appreciate. You are thankful for everything. For everything.
I know about the bad, but I look at the good thing.
Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, itβs closets
Let yourself go, the pleasure of physical movement is so important. If that's a problem, you say to yourself, what is there that I am afraid of, or hiding? Maybe your libido!
You deserve all the good things that happen to you. Don't feel guilty and accept the blessings.
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble and grand. The word my grandfather uses is comfort. So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything. Give no story. Make no claim. Where you can live at the edge of your skin for as long as you wish.
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