If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.
Anton ChekhovRead
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Interpretation
Happiness can overshadow the awareness of life's changing seasons.
This quote by Anton Chekhov suggests that when individuals are truly happy, external circumstances, such as the changing seasons, become less important or noticeable. Happiness has the power to shift our focus away from the challenges and realities of life, allowing us to experience joy irrespective of our environment.
In practice
During a speech at a community event, one could use the quote to emphasize the importance of finding joy in everyday life.
If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.
There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments , but you have to prepare for that, you have to expect it and be resolute and follow your own path.
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones.
When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.
Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks oblivion in vodka, cards, a fourth, in order to stifle fear and anguish, cynically tramples underfoot the portrait of his pure, beautiful youth? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another? Why?
Once a day, sit quietly and place a hand upon your heart. Send it love, and allow yourself to feel the love your heart has for you. It has been beating for you since before you were born. Your heart is love, and the blood in your veins is joy. Your heart is now lovingly pumping joy throughout your body. All is well, and you are safe.
Everything is a present. Everything. This I learned to be thankful for everything.
I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.
Look, really look, at how beautiful this day is. Let go of the worries and anxieties and judgments, and see the beauty.
Excitement radiates through your eyes, your face, your voice, your soul, and your whole personality.
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
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