#forge

People always talk about how hard it can be to remember things - where they left their keys, or the name of an acquaintance - but no one ever talks about how much effort we put into forgetting. I am exhausted from the effort to forget... There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living. ↗

— Stephen Carpenter

#forgotten #memories #memory #remembering #remembrance

To be able to forget means sanity. ↗

— Jack London

#forgetting #sanity #london

Close your eyes, forget everything that hurts you and dream love, kindness and compassion. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#eyes #forget #hurts #kindness #love

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#express #forget #gratitude #highest #live

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#bless #blessed #blunders #forget #forgetful

The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left. The knowledge that this question was possible: pain that turns finally into emptiness. The knowledge that the same equation applied to everything, more or less. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#memory #pain #transformation #transformation

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#forgive #naive #neither #nor #stupid

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#forgetting #heroes #news #our #relish

I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything. ↗

— David Wenham

#anything #earth #forget #i #memory

Forgetting who you are is so much more complicated than simply forgetting your name. It's also forgetting your dreams. Your aspirations. What makes you happy. What you pray you'll never have to live without. It's meeting yourself for the first time, and not being sure of your first impression. ↗

— Jessica Brody

#dreams #first-impressions #forgetting #memory-loss #sadness