...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.
Interpretation
Filling your life with laughter leaves no space for sadness.
This quote emphasizes the importance of maintaining a positive attitude in life. By choosing to fill our days with laughter and joy, we can push out negative emotions and experiences, leading to a happier existence. It suggests that a joyful demeanor can significantly influence our overall well-being and perspective.
In practice
In a motivational speech about maintaining a positive outlook during tough times.
But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the passing of time, yet happy ones could never be recreated - not with the same joy. Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.
What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.
If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to look for it.
There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.
Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder
Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.
Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there as long as you live, to make you happy again. Whenever you're feeling lonely or sad, try going to the loft on a beautiful day and looking outside. Not at the houses and the rooftops, but at the sky. As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that your pure within and will find happiness once more.
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
Abundance is about being rich, with or without money.
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