"Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness,……" — Everett Ruess
"Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥"
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14 Quotes by Everett Ruess
Everett Ruess has 14 quotes on this site.
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I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough.…
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I have seen almost more beauty than I can bear.
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I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and…
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I have been thinking more and more that I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness. God, how…
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I thought that there were two rules in life - never count the cost, and never do anything unless you…
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I shall go on some last wilderness trip, to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.
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I'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there…
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But then, I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life.
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I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and…
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I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly…
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Always, I want to live more intensely and richly.
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While I am alive, I intend to live.
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More Forgetfulness Quotes
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one of 148 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
— Ambrose Bierce
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You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my…
— William Shakespeare
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The word 'sin' is beautiful; it comes from a root which means 'forgetfulness'. You may not be able to see…
— Rajneesh
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Right awareness is awareness of one's own being in its totality: all that is good and all that is bad.…
— Rajneesh
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Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it…
— Rajneesh
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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The…
— May Sarton
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Don't you ever forget that in the end, our future is tied to people.
— William J. Clinton
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I never forgive, but I always forget.
— Arthur Balfour
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Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.
— Zora Neale Hurston
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