A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.
Interpretation
Happy memories hold a lasting value that often surpasses fleeting happiness.
This quote suggests that the essence of true happiness can be found in the cherished memories we hold onto, implying that these memories can bring a deeper joy and satisfaction than the transient feelings of happiness we experience in the moment. It highlights the significance of our past experiences, indicating that the joy we derive from memories can shape our overall sense of well-being and happiness.
In practice
During a wedding toast, to emphasize the importance of shared memories in the couple's relationship.
Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what secret compartments! It is an entire world that each one carries within him, an unknown world that is born and dies in silence! What solitudes all these human bodies are!
You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep
What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something.
The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer
life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream
The only true language in the world is a kiss.
To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America; with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.
Even people who believe they deserve to be happy and have nice things often don't feel worthy once they have them.
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