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.
Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.
Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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