Sunday Evening Sofa with Eleanor Roosevelt and Yo-Yo Ma
On Happiness and Understanding
Welcome to the Sunday Evening Sofa - Two Quotes and One Question
(from the Small Stories about Big Things newsletter)
My hope? Maybe you can lean back onto your Sunday evening sofa with…
a bit more encouragement,
a bit more calm,
and a helpful thought or two sitting with your soul.
QUOTES
“Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"I play an instrument that has four strings, and I'm still trying to get it right. What I've tried to do in the process of playing these four strings is to try and understand the people I meet, the stories they have to tell. And then become an advocate for them and their stories through music."
~ Yo-Yo Ma
QUESTION
When is the music of your life at its very best?
Whenthere is harmony!