You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.
Dr. SeussRead
Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.
Interpretation
Cherish happy memories of me rather than dwell on sadness.
This quote by Dr. Seuss emphasizes the importance of positive remembrance over sorrowful reflection. It suggests that when someone passes away, it is kinder to remember the joyful moments shared with them rather than to focus on the pain of their absence.
In practice
Using this quote at a memorial service to celebrate the life of a loved one.
You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
How true, how true" said the Sour Kangaroo, "And from now on, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm going to protect them with you!" And the Young Kangaroo in her pouch said "Me too!
If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.
When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!
I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
Your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you.
But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.) The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, And arbitrary blackness gallops in: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.)
Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart?
The highest degree of love is Tatayyum (total enthrallment). The lowest degree is 'alaqah (attachment), when the heart is attached to the beloved: then comes sabahah (infatuation), when the heart is poured out: then gharam (passion), when love never leaves the heart: the nashaq (ardent love), and finally tatayyum.
Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away. To put the world between us We parted stiff and dry: 'Farewell,' said you, 'forget me.' 'Fare well, I will,' said I. If e'er, where clover whitens The dead man's knoll, you pass, And no tall flower to meet you Starts in the trefoiled grass, Halt by the headstone shading The heart you have not stirred, And say the lad that loved you Was one that kept his word.
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