There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Interpretation
This quote expresses overwhelming joy and contentment in life.
Salvador Dali's quote conveys the idea that there are moments in life so filled with joy and satisfaction that they can feel almost overwhelming, akin to being 'overdosed' on happiness. It suggests that such experiences can be intense and profound, highlighting the importance of appreciating and embracing these moments of bliss.
In practice
During a motivational speech about finding joy in everyday life.
Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?" Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.
Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!
The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!
[Happiness is] a ghost, itβs a shadow. You canβt really chase it. Itβs a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.
So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.
my lips never know my problem they just always smile
Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course.
And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the hungry little girls who gave away their breakfasts and contented themselves with bread and milk on Christmas morning.
Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.
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