Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it's becoming nice again around you. And you realize it, and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh.
Interpretation
Finding joy in difficult times can help you cope with sadness and appreciate the beauty around you.
This quote emphasizes the idea that laughter can be a powerful emotion, serving as a coping mechanism during tough situations. It also highlights the importance of recognizing moments of happiness and goodness in the world, no matter the challenges one faces. By acknowledging these moments and allowing yourself to express joy, you can create a sense of hope and positivity, which is vital for emotional well-being.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a motivational speech about resilience in tough times.
'Brown Girl Dreaming' was a book I had a lot of doubts about - mainly, would this story be meaningful to anyone besides me? My editor, Nancy Paulsen, kept assuring me, but there were moments when I was in a really sad place with the story for so many reasons. It wasn't an easy book to write - emotionally, physically, or creatively.
In the midst of observing the world and coming to consciousness, I was becoming a writer, and what I wanted to put on the page were the stories of people who looked like me.
I don't want anyone to walk through the world feeling invisible ever again.
The strength of my mother is something I didn't pay attention to for so long. Here she was, this single mom, who was part of the Great Migration, who was part of a Jim Crow south, who said, 'I'm getting my kids out of here. I'm creating opportunities for these young people by any means necessary.'
I would have written 'Brown Girl Dreaming' if no one had ever wanted to buy it, if it went nowhere but inside a desk drawer that my own children pulled out one day to find a tool for survival, a symbol of how strong we are and how much we've come through.
I love how much love there is in the world of young adult and children's literature.
The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.
Everyone who has observed human behavior for more than thirty continuous seconds seems to have noticed that people are strongly, perhaps even primarily, perhaps even single-mindedly, motivated to feel happy.
When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in.
Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.
The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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