The dog is the only living being that has found and recognizes an indubitable, tangible and definite god. He knows to whom above him to give himself. He has not to seek for a superior and infinite power.
Maurice MaeterlinckRead
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
Interpretation
Happiness can spread to others just as easily as sadness, and those who are happy have a responsibility to share that joy.
This quote emphasizes the idea that emotions can be infectious. Just as gloom can affect those around us, so too can happiness; thus, individuals who experience joy should actively share it to uplift others, fostering a more positive environment for everyone.
In practice
In a motivational speech about the importance of positivity in the workplace.
The dog is the only living being that has found and recognizes an indubitable, tangible and definite god. He knows to whom above him to give himself. He has not to seek for a superior and infinite power.
No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some one from another world to descend and ask of the earth the most perfect creation of the logic of life, we should needs have to offer the humble comb of honey.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal ... Speech is of Time, silence is of Eternity ... It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another.
As soon as we put something into words, we devalue it in a strange way. We think we have plunged into the depths of the abyss, and when we return to the surface the drop of water on our pale fingertips no longer resembles the sea from which it comes. We delude ourselves that we have discovered a wonderful treasure trove, and when we return to the light of day we find that we have brought back only false stones and shards of glass; and yet the treasure goes on glimmering in the dark, unaltered.
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.
a man possessed with peace is always smiling
Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.
The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.
Comparison is the thief of joy.
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