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To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.


Joyce Cary


#forgiveness #genius #forgiveness

Life has a way of going in circles. Ideally, it would be a straight path forward––we'd always know where we were going, we'd always be able to move on and leave everything else behind. There would be nothing but the present and the future. Instead, we always find ourselves where we started. When we try to move ahead, we end up taking a step back. We carry everything with us, the weight exhausting us until we want to collapse and give up. We forget things we try to remember. We remember things we'd rather forget. The most frightening thing about memory is that it leaves no choice. It has mastered an incomprehensible art of forgetting. It erases, it smudges, it fills in blank spaces with details that don't exist. But however we remember it––or choose to remember it––the past is the foundation that holds our lives in place. Without its support, we'd have nothing for guidance. We spend so much time focused on what lies ahead, when what has fallen behind is just as important. What defines us isn't where we're going, but where we've been. Although there are places and people we will never see again, and although we move on and let them go, they remain a part of who we are. There are things that will never change, things we will carry along with us always. But as we venture into the murky future, we must find our strength by learning to leave things behind.


Brigid Gorry-Hines


#forgetting #future #give-up #life #strength

She's forgetting,' Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. 'All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will be nothing left.


Isobelle Carmody


#life #life

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.


Sidonie Gabrielle Colette


#brink #forgetting #getting old #grave #keeps

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.


Pablo Neruda


#long #love #love is #short

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.


Clarissa Pinkola Estes


#emotion #erase #forgetting #kind #lays

The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.


Sydney Smith


#feebleness #forgetting #fortify #human #intellect

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.


Mary Stewart


#best way #concentrate #feel #forgetting #how

Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.


Sarah Dessen


#forgetting #change

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.


Samuel Butler


#better #death #drink #eat #etc






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