"The advantage of a bad memory is..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
More by Friedrich Nietzsche
“Every word is a prejudice.”
“Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.”
“Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.”
More on Memory
“Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.”
“My earliest memories are from the 2004 Euros when Portugal reached the final and unfortunately we lost. I was seven and I remember it well.”
“Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day... make a wish and think of me.”
More on Happiness
“By referring to previous struggles and using them as reasons for not getting on with your life today, you're assigning responsibility to the past for why you can't be successful or happy in the present.”
“One love, one heart . . . Let’s get together and feel all right”
“So long as we are under the control of disturbing emotions, real happiness is hard to find.”