Quotes about Forgetting

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering. Votes: 5

Forgetting oneself is opening oneself Votes: 3

Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully. Votes: 3

Forgetting is woman's first and greatest art. Votes: 3

Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse. Votes: 3

Forgetting is natural, remembering is the effort one makes. Votes: 3

Forgetting the extermination is part of the extermination itself. Votes: 3

Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives. Votes: 3

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior. Votes: 3

Forgetting someone is like getting over a hundred addictions everyday. Votes: 3

I keep forgetting about your amnesia. Heh. Forgetting about amnesia. That's funny. Votes: 3

Forgetting is the mind's way of helping you heal. Helping you move on. Votes: 3

Forgetting about our mistakes and our wounds isn't enough to make them disappear. Votes: 3

Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard. Votes: 3

Forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn't happen to me. Votes: 3

Forgetting and remembering are governed by laws, but we cannot find out what they are. Votes: 3

Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition. Votes: 3

The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower. Votes: 3

Forgetting your mission leads, inevitably, to getting tangled up in details-details that can take you completely off your path. Votes: 3

Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson. Votes: 3

Forgetting is a blessing; remembering is a blessing! We are lucky that we can forget; we are lucky that we can remember! Votes: 3

If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings. Votes: 3

Forgetting is something that time takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision. Votes: 3

We all need that experience of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are is such a delicious experience and so frightening that we're in this conflicted predicament. Votes: 3

Forgetting takes space./Forgotten matters displace/as much anything else as/anything else. We must/skirt unlabeled crates/as thought it made sense/and take them when we go/to other states. Votes: 3

She's my mate; that makes her mine. Forgetting that will see your neck no longer serving its purpose." "I love it when you talk dirty," she purred. "Give my regards to Lindsay. Votes: 3

It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear. Votes: 3

Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness. Votes: 3

Forgetting: that, too, was the heart's slow way of healing, but it could only be done alone. Love and loss turns us into the most solitary of creatures, their mysteries can never entirely be shared. Votes: 3

Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what is should flee. Forgetting it once had a true lover. Love will prove greater than lust. Sacrifice will overcome seduction. And blood will flow. Votes: 3

This novel has it all--mystery, psychological insight, emotional truth, and--most important--characters whose lives matter. You'll fall in love with these families. Solti writes with such passion it is inescapable, lyrical, and profoundly moving. The Forgetting Tree goes on my top ten list. Votes: 3

I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud of myself. I was sure that I had discovered the key to a new way of putting together a narrative. Votes: 3

Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound. Votes: 3

Long distance relationships are living proof that love is not just physical. I can feel you next to me even when you're thousands of miles away. Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering. Votes: 3

Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves. Votes: 3

A deeply felt novel . . . The Story of Forgetting offers us both solace and illumination. Stefan Merrill Block possesses a singular mix of imagination, compassion, and scientific understanding; he is equally gifted at spinning fantastic tales as he is at bringing genetic histories to vivid life. Votes: 3

Forgetting the things that lie behind, I will strive towards my higher spiritual possibilities. I dedicate myself anew to the service of the Coming One and will do all I can to prepare men's minds and hearts for that event. I have no other life intention. Votes: 3

In the Forest of Forgetting do you remember any romances? All the relationships in those stories are dark and twisted - people fall in love, but they really shouldn't have. There's even a story about a marriage, but it focuses on a woman who marries a bear! Votes: 3

There is consequence of our forgetting who we are. Forgetting that we're able to create our environment, from our health to economy to war. Something can be done about everything we perceive as bad, if we so choose. If we are aware of the concept of compassion. Votes: 3

Forgetting offences is a sign of sincere repentance. If you keep the memory of them, you may believe you have repented but you are like someone running in his sleep. Let no one consider it a minor defect, this darkness that often clouds the eyes even of spiritual people. Votes: 3

The crime of loving is forgetting. Votes: 2

Take without forgetting, and give without remembering. Votes: 2

Love is so short, forgetting is so long. Votes: 2

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting. Votes: 2

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. Votes: 2

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. Votes: 2

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too. Votes: 2

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Votes: 2

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry. Votes: 2

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. Votes: 2

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. Votes: 2

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again. Votes: 2

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve. Votes: 2

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them. Votes: 2

There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside. Votes: 2

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.' Votes: 2

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture. Votes: 2

We in the Hispanic community are truly tired of both the Democrats and the Republicans promising all of these things during the campaigns and then forgetting about it after the campaigns are over. Votes: 2

I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower. Votes: 2

People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened. Votes: 2

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. Votes: 2

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values. Votes: 2

I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before. Votes: 2

We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary. Votes: 2

We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy. Votes: 2

The danger lies in forgetting. Votes: 0

Moving on doesn't mean forgetting. Votes: 0

I'm very good at forgetting people. Votes: 0

I've a grand memory for forgetting. Votes: 0

Christian growth is forgetting about yourself. Votes: 0

Forgiving is forgetting, in spite of remembering. Votes: 0

One of life's minor satisfactions is forgetting. Votes: 0

Forgiving is all; forgetting is another thing. Votes: 0

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing? Votes: 0

Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting. Votes: 0

...forgiving is not the same as forgetting. Votes: 0

Life cannot go on without much forgetting. Votes: 0

The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Votes: 0

I always feel like I'm forgetting things. Votes: 0

Love is brief: forgetting lasts so long. Votes: 0

Love is short, but forgetting is long. Votes: 0

Jewish Alzheimer's is forgetting everything except a grudge. Votes: 0

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things. Votes: 0

Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity. Votes: 0

...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation. Votes: 0

Forgiving is not forgetting. Forgiving is remembering without pain. Votes: 0

Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting. Votes: 0

We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe. Votes: 0

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting... Votes: 0

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin. Votes: 0

Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories. Votes: 0

But remember what I said about forgetting what I said? Votes: 0

Forgiveness doesn't mean forgetting to remember, but remembering to forget. Votes: 0

Love is short, forgetting is long, and understanding longer still. Votes: 0

Made a lot of changesBut not forgetting who i was Votes: 0

Forgiving is not forgetting. It is remembering and letting go. Votes: 0

True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past. Votes: 0

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all. Votes: 0

To lose one’s name is the beginning of forgetting. Votes: 0

Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life. Votes: 0

The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long. Votes: 0

Listening means forgetting yourself completely - only then can you listen. Votes: 0

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong. Votes: 0

How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else. Votes: 0

Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt Votes: 0

One of the great enemies of hope is forgetting God's promises. Votes: 0

Remembering to live by forgetting all the places where I died. Votes: 0

I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people. Votes: 0

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. Votes: 0

Why is it that we are born remembering, and live forgetting? Votes: 0

It's amazing what a haircut and forgetting to shave will do. Votes: 0

A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it. Votes: 0

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God. Votes: 0

We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within. Votes: 0

Don't be tricked by the verisimilitude into forgetting this is fiction! Votes: 0

Sometimes people have to compensate for the past, forgetting about the future. Votes: 0

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting. Votes: 0

I'm tired of people screaming about price and forgetting about the content. Votes: 0

I've decided that perhaps I'm bulimic and just keep forgetting to purge. Votes: 0

Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting Votes: 0

The most dangerous trap is just living and forgetting that God exists. Votes: 0

For me, style is about forgetting the rules or creating new ones. Votes: 0

My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill. Votes: 0

All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting. Votes: 0

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering. Votes: 0

I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes, my rage, forgetting everything. Votes: 0

One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it. Votes: 0

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Votes: 0

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. Votes: 0

The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting. Votes: 0

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. Votes: 0

Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting. Votes: 0

A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs Votes: 0

I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting. Votes: 0

There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting. Votes: 0

An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment. Votes: 0

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play. Votes: 0

The world was quickly forgetting us. And there was little news to report. Votes: 0

Maybe that's how I learned to handle up my deep hurt...by forgetting. Votes: 0

When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost. Votes: 0

The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials. Votes: 0

Sitting with the woman of your dreams and forgetting what her name is. Votes: 0

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat. Votes: 0

Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God. Votes: 0

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. Votes: 0

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat. Votes: 0

I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream. Votes: 0

The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go. Votes: 0

She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future. Votes: 0

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future. Votes: 0

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up. Votes: 0

forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age. Votes: 0

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting. Votes: 0

ISIS BEHEADS CIVILIANS WHILE WORLD KEEPS FORGETTING WHAT VICTIMS' SOULS R BEGGING:HUMANITY SAVE KOBANE Votes: 0

The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms. Votes: 0

Forgiveness is not about forgetting, Mack. It is about letting go of another person's throat. Votes: 0

One key ingredient to successful technology integration is not forgetting the autonomy and the fun. Votes: 0

My father is much more into forgetting and forgiving, but I'm much more into revenge. Votes: 0

No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day. Votes: 0

One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are Votes: 0

The moment I fell in love with running, I started forgetting my grief and traumas. Votes: 0

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something. Votes: 0

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know Votes: 0

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. Votes: 0

Most of the worst errors I made in my life came from forgetting to act small. Votes: 0

Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence. Votes: 0

We are to look for God in each other and love this God, forgetting all else... Votes: 0

With technology and over-scheduling, we are forgetting to invest time in simple connective moments with others. Votes: 0

We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting. Votes: 0

To change, it takes a decision based on faith, faith takes forgetting everything you thought you knew. Votes: 0

Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct. Votes: 0

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest. Votes: 0

For me, performance is about forgetting what I'm wearing. Just putting it on and knowing it's right. Votes: 0

Servants must be big people. Big enough to go on, remembering the right and forgetting the wrong. Votes: 0

Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering. Votes: 0

The forgetting of the history of marginalized groups is both a cause and effect of their marginalization. Votes: 0

Real success is doing things right every day by not forgetting to express love to your friends. Votes: 0

The most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hard work familynever forgetting where we came from, Votes: 0

For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past. Votes: 0

IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding. Votes: 0

Though one cannot always Remember exactly why one has been happy, There is no forgetting that one was. Votes: 0

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed. Votes: 0

Time is passing...yet for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. Votes: 0

Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on. Votes: 0

How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents. Votes: 0

I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at. Votes: 0

Never forgetting from where I came and no matter where I'm headed I promise to stay the same Votes: 0

Be happy by forgiving or forgetting or doing both, but we can gain no happiness by holding grudges. Votes: 0

We are watching the Germans closely; we are not forgetting what they did to us during the war. Votes: 0

We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be. Votes: 0

Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain. Votes: 0

People eat meat and think they will become strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass. Votes: 0

Let us, while never forgetting our womanhood, drop all emphasis on sex, and put it on being public servants. Votes: 0

Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20. Votes: 0

Don't forget! That is to say: remember - because remembering is so much more a psychotic activity than forgetting. Votes: 0

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. Votes: 0

Only one thing’s sadder than remembering you were once free, and that’s forgetting you were once free. Votes: 0

This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence. Votes: 0

I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible. Votes: 0

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting. Votes: 0

Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul. Votes: 0

Among her other talents were forgetting what she did not like and ignoring what she preferred not to see. Votes: 0

People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass. Votes: 0

Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair. Votes: 0

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place. Votes: 0

The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left. Votes: 0

A good marriage can be ruined by poor communications - and by forgetting to put the lid back down. Votes: 0

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know. Votes: 0

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a sacred Yes. Votes: 0

The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd Votes: 0

His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril he cried aloud: 'I'm coming Mr. Frodo! Votes: 0

Holding still for a moment, what a moment this is, Oh for a moment of forgetting, a moment of bliss Votes: 0

I hate the stress of leaving. Even though I have everything I need, I always feel like I'm forgetting something. Votes: 0

The bliss of the Creator forever permeates all of creation, and it is only in the forgetting that misery exists. Votes: 0

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long. Votes: 0

Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death. Votes: 0

I still have issues around forgetting that it's my life and if I want to do something, I can do it. Votes: 0

Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves. Votes: 0

Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels. Votes: 0

When something is universal enough in our everyday lives, we take it for granted to the point of forgetting it exists. Votes: 0

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself. Votes: 0

The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting. Votes: 0

Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past. Votes: 0

My biggest fear is forgetting why I fell in love with writing. My biggest dream is never allowing that to happen. Votes: 0

Seldom can the heart be lonely, If it seek a lonelier still; Self-forgetting, seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill. Votes: 0

Belfast is a city which, while not forgetting its past, is living comfortably with its present and looking forward to its future. Votes: 0

South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting. Votes: 0

A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding. Votes: 0

Our problem is that we often expect instantaneous solutions to such challenges, forgetting that frequently the heavenly virtue of patience is required. Votes: 0

I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately. Votes: 0

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. Votes: 0

We tend to search for happiness and love forgetting that both can be found when we stop searching for sadness and hate. Votes: 0

Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues. Votes: 0

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them. Votes: 0

All the promises we made in the beginning, did we forget because we were busy? Or are we already too busy forgetting? Votes: 0

I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another. Votes: 0

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss. Votes: 0

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past. Votes: 0

Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray. Votes: 0

I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long. Votes: 0

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture. Votes: 0

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes. Votes: 0

I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it. Votes: 0

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side Votes: 0

I wasn't a very good waitress, always spilling things on people and forgetting things. I once spilled ashes all over Mike Wallace's table. Votes: 0

My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark. Votes: 0

I feel they should be discussed informally, truthfully, honestly, and in some cases, I think, without forgetting ... long-term vision. They should be practical. Votes: 0

There is a permanent amnesia planted in us, which just as we keep forgetting our dreams, we sometimes keep on forgetting our reality. Votes: 0

When we as a nation, strive in vain to preserve the beauty of our national life, forgetting our biblical roots, we are doomed. Votes: 0

We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. Votes: 0

America has become amnesiac - a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated. Votes: 0

We're human beings; we're not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about it. Votes: 0

May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each kindly thing, forgetting what might sting. Votes: 0

The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting. Votes: 0

FORGIVING is FOR GIVING to others and if it is meant FOR GETTING to ourselves then should it not be termed as FORGETTING ourselves. Votes: 0

When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride. Votes: 0

Rituals keep us from forgetting what must not be forgotten and keep us rooted in a past from which we must not be disconnected. Votes: 0

I cursed myself not only for forgetting to turn my phone off but for ever thinking that having a rock music ringtone was cool. Votes: 0

Somewhere inside we do know everything about ourselves. There is no real forgetting. Perhaps we know somewhere, too, about all there is to come. Votes: 0

I do believe in forgiving and forgetting. There was a reason we were together. I just want to hold on to the good times. Votes: 0

She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness. Votes: 0

Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations. Votes: 0

Online petitions are built around getting as many signatures as possible. But the experience of taking them and forgetting about them degrades the importance. Votes: 0

This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere. Votes: 0

There are people who are afraid to go to confession, forgetting that they will not encounter a severe judge there, but the immensely merciful Father. Votes: 0

How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display. Votes: 0

There is a light within each of us that can never be diminished or extinguished. It can only be obscured by forgetting who we are Votes: 0

There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them. Votes: 0

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying. Votes: 0

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, not forgetting to leave others be as you would have them leave you be. Votes: 0

You can lose your past by forgetting it but you can never lose your future because you can lose only the things you already own! Votes: 0

Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt. Votes: 0

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come. Votes: 0

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust. Votes: 0

So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled. Votes: 0

Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy. Votes: 0

There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts. Votes: 0

Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons -- like mechanics who can turn into coyotes. Votes: 0

Walk a single path, becoming neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat, without forgetting caution when all is quiet or becoming frightened when danger threatens. Votes: 0

Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal forgetting that which is temporary. Votes: 0

It is one of the most discouraging experiences I have ever had, not forgetting the time when I winked at the Queen Mother in London once. Votes: 0

I'm losing friendships over forgetting to get back to people. But you can't keep up with everything. I've got a 13-year-old, a nine-year-old and a baby. Votes: 0

Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth. Votes: 0

Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me. Votes: 0

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar; Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable. Votes: 0

I wanted to tell her "I love you" back, but I guess in waiting for the perfect moment (the next commercial break), I ended up completely forgetting. Votes: 0

No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us. Votes: 0

What's truly important--and what I find myself forgetting and having to relearn--is that right here, right now, I am free. Free to be myself and to express myself. Votes: 0

Slowly but without question - and Presidents' Day is only one example - Americans are forgetting and ignoring the men and events that have made this nation great. Votes: 0

But life isn't about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It's about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes. Votes: 0

I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting. Votes: 0

Hip Hop has its ups and downs but I'm gonna do my best to not necessarily bring that back but just remind people what they are forgetting about. Votes: 0

Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting. Votes: 0

Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that. Votes: 0

We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights. Votes: 0

No relationship is easy, and nobody should ever think it is. The minute you start forgetting the needs of the other person is when you get in trouble. Votes: 0

No relationship is easy, and nobody should ever think it is. The minute you start forgetting the needs of the other person is when you get in trouble. Votes: 0

The student ends up lusting after time with the teacher, hanging on her every word, and forgetting that this is about him or her, the student, not the teacher. Votes: 0

Whether you're an entrepreneur, an employee, a student, a homemaker, a writer, it's time to start forgetting about all the ways the world has promised you safety and comfort. Votes: 0

Once upon a time we were all born, popped out like jelly rolls forgetting our fishdom, the pleasuring seas, the country of comfort, spanked into the oxygens of death.... Votes: 0

When you find yourself talking about less and less and forgetting the love that you bring, never forget there are things you can replace but others you can not. Votes: 0

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning. Votes: 0

I worry, that we are a people in a process of great transition and we are forgetting what we are connected to. We are losing our frame of reference. Votes: 0

I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success. Votes: 0

This is what everybody's forgetting about [Barak] Obama and his immigration law and his executive action and his amnesty on it, the Supreme Court decision. Immigration law is settled. Votes: 0

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them. Votes: 0

This is what everybody's forgetting about [Barak] Obama and his immigration law and his executive action and his amnesty on it, the Supreme Court decision. Immigration law is settled. Votes: 0

Everyone is saying, "How is it with Ethan Hawke and Selena Gomez?" and I say, "You're forgetting the third star." And they're like, "The car?" It's totally a star. Votes: 0

I can't explain why I don't read comments. Maybe because I worked at Time for so long and they don't have them, so I keep forgetting that they're there. Votes: 0

For some reason,we keep forgetting some of our experience. We look back but don't bring the value forward. We bring the anger, the upset. We bring the fear. Votes: 0

Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry. Votes: 0

Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a long-lasting state that is more accurately called well-being. Votes: 0

It's one that still happens, actually... forgetting a part of a difficult piece. Usually, the chances of it happening are directly proportional to how quiet and attentive the audience is. Votes: 0

I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion. Votes: 0

Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the earth you are forgetting… Votes: 0

Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other. Votes: 0

[...][I]f you adapted too much in order to deal with them, you ran the risk of forgetting who you were and you could end up being neither and nothing. Votes: 0

For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours. Votes: 0

When you die you forget. Death is a sleep, a forgetting. You forget about your previous lifetime. The essence of your being is the same. But at death, the personality dissolves Votes: 0

Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child. Votes: 0

I was forgetting that an artist also just stares at a piece of paper or canvas all day. It somehow never occurred to me to connect these two diverse creative modes. Votes: 0

To grant forgiveness to someone who has truly changed is not a way of condoning or forgetting his or her past crimes, but of acknowledging whom he or she has become. Votes: 0

Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off. Votes: 0

over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind." Page 62 Votes: 0

I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail. Votes: 0

Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting. Votes: 0

It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget. Votes: 0

Interfaith dialogue is a must today, and the first step in establishing it is forgetting the past, ignoring polemical arguments, and giving precedence to common points, which far outnumber polemical ones. Votes: 0

I think a lot of people feel that they are just not listened to, and that the politicians in Washington are just playing games with each other and forgetting about their constituents. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future. Votes: 0

We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world. Votes: 0

My worst habit is probably that I'm extremely messy. I'm a big scatter-brain - I'm always losing my car keys, or worse, forgetting where I parked my car in the car park. Votes: 0

She was not granted the luxury of forgetting her lower middle-class existence where life hangs by an unseen thread to every hope and where every slash of disappointment shrinks the life further. Votes: 0

For hundreds of thousands of years I have been dust-grains floating and flying in the will of the air, often forgetting ever being in that state, but in sleep I migrate back. Votes: 0

We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves. Votes: 0

I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea. Votes: 0

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down. Votes: 0

In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook, Thy bubblings ne'er remember Apollo's summer look; But with a sweet forgetting, They stay their crystal fretting, Never, never petting About the frozen time. Votes: 0

To record is a process against forgetting. I do interviews because it's what I've been doing every day for a few hours since I was a kid. I've always talked to artists. Votes: 0

We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads. Votes: 0

There's no relationship to the narrative anymore. People want their own interpretation of history. We're compartmentalizing, forgetting what came directly before, like it's not a big deal. That, to me, is a crime. Votes: 0

The big problem with literature is people tend to take the dialogue from the book, forgetting that everything that surrounds it is literate, therefore not knowing quite how to put that on screen. Votes: 0

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality. Votes: 0

I have to say that I think that Anthony Eden was probably the most disastrous Prime Minister in our history, and I am not forgetting Lord North and a few people like that. Votes: 0

We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after us, squandering the patrimony which we have received. Votes: 0

I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am! Votes: 0

I actually don't have a problem with shooting and then just walking away and forgetting about it. I'm not really like a Method actor or an old soul. It doesn't stay with me. Votes: 0

Do your actions in the world, without forgetting that your find goal in life is to break free from all bondage and limitations. Always 'remember that you have a higher goal to attain. Votes: 0

You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time. Votes: 0

There is too little idea of personal responsibility; too much of "the world owes me a living," forgetting that if the world does owe you a living, you must be your own collector. Votes: 0

I can't believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to me to be a great part of the substance of human life. Votes: 0

The Church is the Body of Christ begotten, unified, and indwelt by the Spirit, but forgetting the Spirit, men wrangle over limbs, functions, and orders. The Christian religion is hopeless without the Holy Ghost. Votes: 0

Am I aging? The pros and the cons? Well, you know a lot more, at least until the time you start forgetting it all. Actually, aging can be a fun process, to some degree. Votes: 0

Amuse yourself, torment your desires. Drink when you're thirsty -- that would be very much too simple! If you didn't harbour a temptation eternally in your soul, you'd run the risk of forgetting yourself. Votes: 0

Amuse yourself, torment your desires. Drink when you're thirsty -- that would be very much too simple! If you didn't harbour a temptation eternally in your soul, you'd run the risk of forgetting yourself. Votes: 0

The injured runner is like a recent amputee victim, continually forgetting that the limb isn't there, crestfallen at each realization. What we need more than anything is a suitable prosthetic and an attitude adjustment. Votes: 0

The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world. Votes: 0

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me. Votes: 0

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors. Votes: 0

Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end, will be intertwined with the fate of the 30-year bond. Votes: 0

Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing? Votes: 0

So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean Yours are the sweetest eyes, I've ever seen. Votes: 0

A couple of times, I could have turned a trick. But I didn't want to start. I knew how it would play. When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost. Votes: 0

Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I'm exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I've set out to do. Votes: 0

Those of us who follow Jesus Christ must seriously commit to praying for our leaders, never forgetting that even our greatest heroes are flawed individuals who need Jesus Christ, just like the rest of us. Votes: 0

Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us. Votes: 0

I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I keep forgetting to think of 'Charles II' as a costume drama. Votes: 0

It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean. Votes: 0