To get joy, we must give it and to keep joy, we must scatter it.
Interpretation
Joy is both created and maintained through generosity and sharing.
This quote suggests that joy is not only a personal experience but also a communal one. To truly experience joy, we must share it with others, and by sharing, we ensure that joy continues to exist in our lives. This creates a cycle where joy multiplies; the more we give, the more we receive, highlighting the interconnectedness of human emotions and relationships.
In practice
Using this quote during a speech about community service at a local charity event.
The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be. It's self centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.
Life is made up not necessarily of great sacrifices or high-level duties but of little things. The smiles, the kindnesses, the commitments and obligations and responsibilities that are given habitually and lovingly are the blessings that win and preserve the heart and bring comfort to one's self as we as to others. This is the ministry of service performed by every useful life.
The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be.
The objective of our religious foundations is to teach people that they are hurting themselves when they say they believe something. What we should realize is we know almost nothing about God and therefore we should be eager to search and to learn.
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
Three of my children are medical doctors; they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.
Happiness is a decision, not an experience. You can decide to be happy without what you thought you needed in order to be happy, and you will be. Your experience is the result of your decision, not the cause of it.
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
I think, as long as you're secure with yourself and happy with yourself, it really doesn't matter what the world around you thinks.
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Normal people can be happy with a regular life, but there is more to life than just plodding through an average existence.
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