Happiness is created, not waiting

Alana 2022-03-22 09:01:05

Life often makes us feel hard, and makes us witness the distortion and deformation of life under various pressures countless times. —— "The Unbearable Lightness of Life" And what I admire most in the movie is that Dad never gave up his dream, no matter how difficult it is, and finally achieved happiness. In this way, I think of a philosophical paragraph in the film: a pious drowning man hopes that God can save him. A ship passed by, and he refused to be saved, saying that God will come to save me. The second ship passed by, and he still refused to be rescued for the same reason. Then the man who fell into the water drowned. In heaven, he was not convinced and asked God, Almighty Lord, why don’t you come to save me? God replied, in order to save you, I sent two boats. Happiness is won, not by waiting, and you must have the ability to seize opportunities, otherwise you can only watch the opportunities slip away.

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The Pursuit of Happyness quotes

  • Christopher Gardner: [narrating, at a payphone, raining, after learning Linda is taking Christopher away from him] It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?

  • [repeated line to his father Christopher Sr]

    Christopher: Where are we going?