When I wake up every morning, I smile and say, 'Thank you.' Because out of my window I can see the mountains, then go hiking with my dog and share her bounding joy in the world.
Interpretation
This quote expresses gratitude for the simple joys of life, such as nature and companionship.
Carole King's quote emphasizes the importance of appreciating the small, everyday moments that bring happiness. By waking up with a smile and expressing gratitude for the view of the mountains and the joy shared with her dog, she highlights how these simple pleasures can enhance our overall well-being and perspective on life.
In practice
This quote can be used during a motivational speech about finding joy in everyday life.
I'm a songwriter first...In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious...Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive...There is a downside to having one of the biggest-selling albums ever.
I've had a remarkable life. I seem to be in such good places at the right time. You know, if you were to ask me to sum my life up in one word, gratitude.
I still believe that everyone is beautiful in some way and by seeing the beauty in others we make ourselves more beautiful.
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
If you want to be happy, make someone else happy. If you want to find the right person in your life, be the right person. If you want to see change in the world, become the change you want to see.
Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness.
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.
I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near unto an hour, and I felt myself growing pure again. I don't believe in baptism or the waters of Jordan or anything like that, but I guess I feel about a hot bath the way those religious people feel about holy water.
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