We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
William E. GladstoneRead
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
Interpretation
True happiness comes from appreciating what you have and being generous to others.
This quote emphasizes that happiness is not found in an endless pursuit of more, but rather in gratitude for what we currently possess and in sharing our blessings with others. By being content and generous, we create an environment where happiness flourishes naturally, eliminating the constant need to seek it elsewhere.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a motivational speech focusing on personal fulfillment.
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil!
Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.
To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.
It is pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart.
I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
It dances today, my heart, _x000D_ like a peacock it dances, _x000D_ it dances. _x000D_ It sports a mosaic of passions like a peacockβs tail, _x000D_ It soars to the sky with delight, it quests, _x000D_ Oh wildly, it dances today, my heart, _x000D_ like a peacock it dances.
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