Myrtle Reed Quotes

You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

I am blessed that I quickly forget things.

It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its functions without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present.

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.

Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets.

Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or to forget? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives?

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

I like people who have the capacity to forget. I think that to forget is a good thing. Forgetting is good. But sometimes I cannot. For me, I cannot.

Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.

It is within your hands to be frustrated in life or not. Just your expectations should become smaller, smaller, smaller, and in the same proportion the frustration will become smaller. A day will come when there will be no expectation; then you will never come across any frustration.

Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier.

The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.

How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?

Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.

I would like to reach a balance and forget a few things.

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.

I was staring to learn how to forget the things that made me sad. It was like a charm you followed step-by-step, collecting and blending the ingredients, placing everything in its proper place, reciting the incantation. It was the magic of forgetting.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Life is nothing but a memory. People who dwell on the bad ones aren't going to have a whole lot of good ones coming up.

To live moment to moment is the life of meditation. Then life becomes spontaneous without any effort; then nobody can make you miserable, nobody can disappoint you, nobody can make you a failure because in the first place you were not trying to be a success; you were not asking the future to be in a certain way. So whatever happens, the next moment you can rejoice. It is always your victory.

She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.