When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.
I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good.
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
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