A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
Interpretation
Negative thoughts can harm us more severely than physical illness.
In this quote, Guy De Maupassant emphasizes the powerful impact of detrimental thoughts on one's well-being. He suggests that the mental anguish caused by negative thinking can be more destructive to a person's health than any physical ailment, highlighting the importance of maintaining a positive mindset for overall health.
In practice
During a wellness seminar, to illustrate the impact of mindset on health.
Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it you could brush against appalling things and feel roaming and prowling around a strange, mysterious horror.
To love very much is to love inadequately; we love-that is all. Love cannot be modified without being nullified. Love is a short word but it contains everything. Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe the air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us. Love is not a word; it is a wordless state indicated by four letters.
breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life, one adjective only which will describe it. One must search until one has discovered them, this noun, this verb, this adjective, and never rest content with approximations, never resort to trickery, however happy, or to vulgarism, in order to dodge the difficulty.
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.
Wherever you go you will find people lying to you, and as your awareness grows, you will notice that you also lie to yourself. Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.
It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
In the Universe the difficult things are done as if they were easy.
Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.
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