As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Audrey HepburnRead
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
Interpretation
Happiness is defined as being in good health and forgetting unpleasant memories.
In this quote, Audrey Hepburn reflects on the simple yet profound concept that happiness consists of two key elements: having good health and the ability to let go of negative experiences or memories. This definition emphasizes the importance of physical well-being and a positive mindset for achieving true happiness in life.
In practice
During a motivational speech aimed at promoting mental health awareness.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.
On the one hand maybe Iβve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.
This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find yourself someone really nice and drive her through the Bois de Boulogne in a taxi. The rain's very important. That's when Paris smells its sweetest. It's the damp chestnut trees.
I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their dreams.
The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.
Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.
Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster Γ la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness.
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.
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