Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
VoltaireRead
I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.
Interpretation
Choosing happiness has positive effects on your well-being.
This quote by Voltaire emphasizes the importance of happiness as a conscious choice that one makes for the sake of one's health. By prioritizing joy and contentment, individuals can enhance their overall quality of life and improve their mental and physical well-being.
In practice
In a motivational speech about mental health awareness.
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.
Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.
When you do not know what to do or which way to turn, smile. This will relax your mind and let the sunshine of happiness into your soul.
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise.
If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful.
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