Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Interpretation
True appreciation of happiness often comes after it is lost.
This quote by Maxim Gorky emphasizes that happiness may seem insignificant when we possess it, but its true value becomes apparent only when we experience its absence. It serves as a reminder to cherish joyful moments and recognize their worth before they slip away.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a motivational speech about cherishing life's moments.
If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.
What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.
A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
Here's one of the great challenges of life. Being happy with what you have while in pursuit of what you want.
What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?
I just drove past Brad Paisley jogging down the side of the road. I rolled down the window and screamed RUN FORREST RUN. I live for….. little moments…..like that.
Happiness begins with impeccability of the word. The way to measure the impeccability of my word is to ask, "Am I happy or am I suffering?" If I'm suffering, then I'm not being impeccable with my word.
The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.
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