Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.
Interpretation
Happiness is experienced at the beginnings and endings of romantic relationships.
This quote by H. L. Mencken suggests that an individual's greatest moments of happiness often occur during two significant events in their romantic life: the joy of discovering love for the first time, and the relief or freedom that sometimes follows the end of a romantic relationship. It highlights the emotional peaks and troughs that characterize love and relationships, illuminating the complex nature of human feelings.
In practice
This quote would be great to share during a speech about the ups and downs of human relationships.
I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell me that they can't recall learning anything of any value in school. All that schoolmasters managed to accomplish with them was to test and determine the amount of knowledge that they had already acquired independently-and not infrequently the determination was made clumsily and inaccurately.
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him
It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.
Love changes everything. Days are longer, words mean more. Love changes everything. Pain is deeper than before. Love can turn your world around, and that world will last forever.
Does not all the blood within me_x000D_ _x000D_ Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee,_x000D_ _x000D_ As the springs to meet the sunshine.
Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too.
God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her
I love myself, therefore I love totally in the now, experiencing each moment as good and knowing that my future is bright, and joyous and secure, for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now and forever more. And so it is.
The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind itβs a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life and the path Iβve chosen to follow.
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