“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.
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“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Paulo Coelho book The Zahir
Source: The Zahir (2005), p. 205.
Context: Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.
“Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Book II, Ch. 12
Attributed
“Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.”
Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase
“Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.”
Ann-Marie MacDonald book Fall on Your Knees
Source: Fall on Your Knees
Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) English painter, specialising in portraits
Discourse no. 2, delivered on December 11, 1769; vol. 1, p. 28.
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