The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
Roald DahlRead
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
Interpretation
Positive thoughts reflect in your appearance and demeanor.
This quote by Roald Dahl suggests that maintaining good and positive thoughts can have a profound effect on your outward appearance and how others perceive you. When you think positively, it radiates joy and beauty, creating an aura of loveliness that reflects not only on your face but on your interactions with the world.
In practice
In a motivational speech about maintaining a positive outlook in life.
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.
I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have stories that deal with death and explain it, as a place to put their fears.
By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one hundred and fifty times. I am suspicious of both facility and speed. Good writing is essentially rewriting. I am positive of this.
You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. "Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful.
I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
The desire for total happiness and for ultimate freedom lies dormant in everyone. It is in the form of a seed. It is like a seed that contains a tree within it. In the same way, the fulfillment of man's ultimate desire is hidden in his very nature. In its perfectly developed state, it is our nature to be happy, to be free. Our real nature is the only thing that is true, and only perfecting it can bring complete satisfaction.
Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-
Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
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