“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher
Variant: Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher
Variant: Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982) Film actress from Sweden
Source: The Real and the Unreal (1961) by Bill Davidson, p. 174
“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”
Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist
“I’ve decided to be happy because it is good for my health.”
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
“When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.”
Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care
Source: Handle with Care
“Luck must be dealt with like health: enjoy it when it is good, be patient when it is bad.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Il faut gouverner la fortune comme la santé: en jouir quand elle est bonne, prendre patience quand elle est mauvaise.
Maxim 392.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“Nostalgia, as always, had wiped away bad memories and magnified the good ones.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Living to Tell the Tale
Living to Tell the Tale (2002)
Charles Caleb Colton (1777–1832) British priest and writer
Vol. II; XXXVIII
Lacon (1820)
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)
13 August 1846
Correspondence, Letters to Madame Louise Colet