Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.
Interpretation
Our memories tend to focus on positive or convenient experiences while overlooking the negative ones.
Malcolm Forbes highlights the inherent selectivity of human memory, suggesting that we often choose to remember events in a way that favors our emotions or perspectives. This selective recollection can provide comfort and a sense of fortune but can also distort reality, leading us to overlook important lessons from negative experiences.
In practice
This quote could be used in a discussion about the reliability of memory in a psychology class.
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we are the government. Stated most simply, we are trying to run a 21st-century society on a 13th-century economic operating system. It just doesn't work.
The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of thingsstop being a glass. Become a lake.
The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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