Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments. — Michel de Montaigne
Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges — Judy Collins
Where does a thought go when it's forgotten? — Sigmund Freud
Think about me lightly,
think of me, and forget. — Marina Tsvetaeva
I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me. — Jules Renard
Short Forgetful Quotes
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. — John F. Kennedy
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. — Confucius
Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it. — Martin Luther
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under. — Ronald Reagan
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights. — Indira Gandhi
Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over. — Fannie Lou Hamer
We were together. I forget the rest. — Walt Whitman
Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us — Pablo Neruda
Music is a science, it heals depression, it awakens, most people don't know, they just take music for an entertainment, something to dance to, and enjoy yourself and you go to bed and forget it tomorrow, music must never be forgotten, it's like a fountain that keeps on flowing — Peter Tosh
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own. — Cesar Chavez
Forget the mistake. Remember the lesson.
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems. — Unknown Author
The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. — Norman Vincent Peale
Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work. — William Arthur Ward
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Live in faith and hope, though it be in darkness, for in this darkness God protects the soul. Cast your care upon God for you are His and He will not forget you. Do not think that He is leaving you alone, for that would be to wrong Him. — John of the Cross
In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being. — Eckhart Tolle
Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices. — Harry S. Truman
People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today. — Betty White
Forget Love Quotes
I LOVE my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind.
Just in case...
HEART might stop. MIND can forget.
I Love them with my Soul.
SOUL never stops or forgets. — Rumi
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. — Ernest Hemingway
Become one with eternity.
Become part of your environment.
Take off your clothes.
Forget yourself. Make love.
Self-destruction is the only
way to peace. — Yayoi Kusama
Never let the thing you want make you forget the things you have.
My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky — Nizar Qabbani
Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves. — Pope John Paul II
God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don’t forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I’d love to do it for him, but I can’t be everywhere. — Willie Nelson
Do more things that make you forget to check your phone.
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. — C. S. Lewis
The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life. — Edith Stein
Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it. — Bob Goff
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you. — William Arthur Ward
Forget Me Quotes
I die without seeing dawn's light shining on my country... You, who will see it, welcome it for me...don't forget those who fell during the nighttime. — Jose Rizal
Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember. — Albert Einstein
Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God. — David Brainerd
I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life. — Immanuel Kant
I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then - whoosh, and I'm gone... and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me - ever. — Jim Morrison
The axe forgets what the tree remembers.
You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand. — E. O. Wilson
Let my name die everywhere, let even my friends forget me, if by that means the cause of the blessed Jesus may be promoted — George Whitefield
You may forget but
let me tell you
this: someone in
some future time
will think of us — Sappho
Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave. — A. A. Milne
He Forget Quotes
Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness. — Fulton J. Sheen
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. — Aeschylus
Forget all the reasons why it won't work and believe the one reason it will.
Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him. — Gordon B. Hinckley
In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens. — Judith Lewis Herman
He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it. — Seneca
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
No matter your age, stage of life, or circumstances, don't forget to dare to dream with God. You don't have to figure anything out. Just keep saying yes to Him, in big ways and small, and watch what He does. — Lysa TerKeurst
Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet. — Kin Hubbard
The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him. — Oscar Wilde
Have you forgotten God? Even if you have, He has not forgotten you. — Moses
Past Forgetting Quotes
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. — Johnny Cash
Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself. — Neville Goddard
J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history. — J. Edgar Hoover
The scariest thing about distance is that you don't know whether they'll miss you or forget you.
We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history. — Ellen G. White
I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future. — Jomo Kenyatta
It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future. — Alan Paton
Never forget how wildly capable you are.
Something to remember on your birthday..Forget the past, it can't be changed..And, forget the present because I didn't get you one. — Brian Jones
Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. — Christian D. Larson
Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. — Lewis B. Smedes
Forget The Past Quotes
Good friends we have had, oh good friends we've lost along the way
In this bright future you can't forget your past
So dry your tears I say. — Bob Marley
The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find. — Edmund Hillary
Anything worth having is hard to keep,
I love you like my coffee, so hot and so sweet.
So, let's stick it out so we never regret it,
I could forgive the past-but I never forget it. — Ghostface Killah
Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present. — Alexander Maclaren
If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future. — Therese of Lisieux
In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. — Deepak Chopra
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. — Fethullah Gulen
Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment. — Nicole Kidman
Forget The World Quotes
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. — Woodrow Wilson
And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives... and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted. — Nate Saint
How many there are ... who imagine that because Jesus paid it all, they need pay nothing, forgetting that the prime object of their salvation was that they should follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ in bringing back a lost world to God. — Lottie Moon
Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval. — Susan B. Anthony
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? — Fanny Brice
Don't forget that in the history of the world, there was a plebiscite, in which Christ and Barabbas were being judged, and the people chose Barabbas. — Augusto Pinochet
The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas. — Tom Peters
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do. — Samuel P. Huntington
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. — Aldous Huxley
There is a moral law in this world which has its application both to individuals and organized bodies of men. You cannot go on violating these laws in the name of your nation, yet enjoy their advantage as individuals. We may forget truth for our conv — Rabindranath Tagore
Not Forgetting Quotes
We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal. — Vladimir Putin
Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it. — Eileen Caddy
Forgiving is not forgetting. Forgiving is remembering without pain. — Celia Cruz
Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living. — Chinmayananda Saraswati
I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in. — Mahmoud Darwish
The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering. — Jim Harrison
We try to remember that medicine is for the patient. We try never to forget that medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits. The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear. The better we have remembered it, the larger they have been. — George W. Merck
They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where your troubles fit into the grand scheme of things, and suddenly they're just not such a big deal anymore. — John Gierach
To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They are born from life. When you create a new work, the point of departure must be contemporary life -- not existing forms of dance. — Pina Bausch
It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power. — Richard Henry Lee
Self Forgetfulness Quotes
Some people have the disease of criticising all the time. They forget the good about others and only mention their faults. They are like flies that avoid the good and pure places and land on the bad and wounds. This is because of the evil within the self and the spoiled nature. — Ibn Taymiyyah
You have to self-reflect. If you forget who you actually are, then what's the use of even looking in the mirror. — Lil Wayne
Even when we try to switch off and press pause, we still look for more things to do. We forget that we are human beings. We need less doing and more being. — Rangan Chatterjee
In terms of changes, the spiritual mentors teach me that I must not forget those relating primarily to improve myself. — Chico Xavier
Never forget the relationship you have with yourself sets the tone for the relationship you have with everyone else. If you want to have better relationships with other people, work on yourself. — Steven Bartlett
I'm gonna forget all the negative press and focus on being the best version of myself. — Jake Paul
Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥ — Everett Ruess
To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton. — Joseph Priestley
A gentleman is one who doesn't and can't forgive himself for self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark of his right attitude towards life. — Anuj
Don't forget to bring a knife when you go to the jungle. — Thai Proverbs
Forgettable Quotes
Being different and thinking different makes a person memorable. History does not remember the forgettable. — Chamath Palihapitiya
And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time. — Donald Miller
There are memories that time can't erase, Clarissa. Ask your friend, Magnus Bane, if you don't believe me. Forever does not make loss forgettable. Only bearable. — Cassandra Clare
Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable, Brother Zachariah to Clary Fray — Cassandra Clare
Nobody gets to name you. You are not forgettable. You are not replaceable. You are not your pain. You are sacred and special and alive. — Jamie Tworkowski
The difference between the forgettable and the enduring is artistry. — William Bernbach
... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters. — Paula Gunn Allen
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable. — Jean Rostand
The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale. — Alan Coren
People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that much, except I guess that's a lie; it does. For some reason, I test very high on forgettability. — William Goldman
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. — Chuck Palahniuk
One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness. — Stormie Omartian
Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia. — George Pickett
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. — Mahatma Gandhi
And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless. — Charles Bukowski
Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget. — Robert Jordan
I totally forget about snowboarding in the summertime. — Shaun White
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater. — Roman Polanski
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. — J. K. Rowling
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