Source: The Alchemist
“Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.”
For to Admire, Stanza 2.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)
Introduction to Poems of Power 1918 edition
“The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.”
Said in conversation with Mrs. Alan Wood; quoted in Alan Wood's Bertrand Russell, the Passionate Sceptic (Allen and Unwin, 1957), pp. 236-7
1950s
Hugo Chávez at a press conference in New Delhi, after signing a cooperative agreement with India's hydrocarbon sector, March 2005.
2005
“The world is full of marvels, if you're willing to travel far enough to see them.”
Source: Nobody's Princess
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior
“Mimì never forgets to see the beauty in life.”
Original: (de) Mimi vergisst nie, die Schönheit im Leben zu sehen, und ist nicht verbittert.
Variant: Mimi never forgets to see the beauty in life and is not bitter.
Source: https://www.frizzmag.de/kultur-freizeit/kultur--buehne/La-Boheme-neue-Version-Staatstheater/
Context: Mimì is a character in Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème. Although she is terminally ill, she enjoys life.
Source: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 27, Proverb recited by Wamba to De Bracy and Front-de-Boeuf.
