Forgetting Quotes

643 quotes by 531 authors

I canâ€™t believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to me to be… — Marilynne Robinson
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… — Edith Stein
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… — Freya Stark
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… — Matthieu Ricard
Christian growth is forgetting about yourself. — Gerhard
I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become an actor by… — Sylvia Kristel
How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child? We can replace… — Benjamin Zander
But I like to think that a lot of managers and executives trying to solve problems miss the forest for the trees by forgetting to… — Gordon Bethune
Memory is a barricade against forgetting; light is a bulwark against darkness; life is a flex against the stillness of the grave. Maybe that's what… — Helen Humphreys
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… — Albert J. Nock
Most of the worst errors I made in my life came from forgetting to act small. — Felix Dennis
Advocates of knowledge management as the next big thing have advanced the proposition that what companies need is more intellectual capital. While that is undeniably… — Jeffrey Pfeffer
Those who seek liberation for themselves alone cannot become fully enlightened. Though it may be said that one who is not already liberated cannot liberate… — Muso Soseki
When we forgive someone, we do not forget the hurtful act, as if forgetting came along with the forgiveness package, the way strings come with… — Lewis B. Smedes
Once we have forgiven, however, we get a new freedom to forget. This time forgetting is a sign of health; it is not a trick… — Lewis B. Smedes
Can you stop your memory on a dime, put it in reverse, and spin it in another direction the way you can reverse direction on… — Lewis B. Smedes
Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God. — Mark Batterson
Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded… — Robert Baden-Powell
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd — Alexander Pope
Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true… — Viktor E. Frankl

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