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.
Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure
Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.
Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.
We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing -- half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could.
No stress, no fights. I'm leaving it all behind. No tears, no time to cry. Just making the most of life.
My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.
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