Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets…

The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“I agree with Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote, ‘The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life’.”

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“I’m like a man who’s been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.”

— Daniel Keyes

We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake…

— Don Carpenter

Im like a man whos been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.

— Daniel Keyes

“A man who forgets his past and allows the flame of the things he loves to be extinguished has no future.”

— T.J. Fisher

When a man forgets himself, he usually does something everybody else remembers.

— James Coco

Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick.…

— Jack Kerouac

He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the memory, a…

— Graham Greene

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

— Roger Zelazny

“The meanest man in the world,” he remarked, “is the man who forgets the old friends that helped him on an early day and…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

— Jane Austen

When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.

— John Oliver Hobbes

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

— Jeremy Bentham