W Quotes
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“We forget all the time. We forget very nearly every single impression that passes through our minds. What we ate for lunch: who our roommate was ten years ago: what we pid for a soda in 1982: what we just came from the living room to the kitchen for. It is constant and vital, and we only notice it if everyday useful things go missing. Every moment gets thrown out like so much garbage - which, in a sense, is what the past is. Memory is a toxin, and its overretention - the constant replaying of the past - is the hallmark of stress disorders and clinical depression. The elimination of memory is a bodily function, like the elimination of urine. Stop urinating and you have renal failure: stop forgetting and you go mad. And so it is that the details of nearly every single day that we have lived, nearly every single moment of each day, nearly every person that we have met and spoken to, the exact wording kf the paragraph that you have just read... gone.”
Source: The Trouble With Tom: The Strange Afterlife and Times of Thomas Paine
“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.”
“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.”
Source: We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction
“We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.”
Source: Selected poems
“We forget everything. What we remember is not what actually happened, not history, but merely the hackneyed dotted line they have chosen to drive into our memories by incessant hammering.”
Source: The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
“We forget how the Greeks and Romans prevailed magnificently in a barbaric world and how that triumph ended-how a slackness and softness finally overcame them to their ruin. In the end, more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security and a comfortable life; and they lost all-comfort and security and freedom.”
“We forget in order to survive our childhoods, when we are totally dependent on our parents' goodwill; but to recover from such childhoods, we must begin by remembering-the bad and the good.”
Source: When You and Your Mother Can't Be Friends: Resolving the Most Complicated Relationship of Your Life
“We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.”
“We forget most of our dreams because we don't have access to those parts of our brain once we are switched to wakefulness. But why we evolved that way is a puzzle to me.”
“We forget now, but during his life, Dr. King wasn't always considered a unifying figure. Even after rising to prominence, even after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. King was vilified by many, denounced as a rabble rouser and an agitator, a communist and a radical. He was even attacked by his own people, by those who felt he was going too fast or those who felt he was going too slow; by those who felt he shouldn't meddle in issues like the Vietnam War or the rights of union workers.”
“We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.”
“We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.”
“We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.”
“We forget our health and comfort and notice a pinching shoe. Much of living well is detaching from our boring stories of pain and shifting focus”
“We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.”
“We forget sometimes that there are saints living among us. When we meet them, we are reminded, not just of the presence of pure divinity right here on earth, but also of our own potential, and of the responsibility we have to try to live up to it, for our own sakes and for the very future of this planet.”
“We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness.”
“We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.”
“We forget that IMPOSSIBLE is one of God's favorite words”
Source: One God, One Plan, One Life: A 365 Devotional
“We forget that our bodies are the most valuable, precious thing we have and take that miracle of life for granted.”
“We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.”
“We forget that sometimes there is something greater than our pain. That's the pain of the person who loves us, who couldn't protect us from that pain.”
Source: Mirror of My Soul
“We forget that stars are not ornaments in the sky, but fires still burning.”
“We forget that stretch marks, cellulite and some stomach fat is natural. We forget that we are born human and physically can't be perfect. We forget that God doesn't make us out of plastic and silicone. We forget to be flawed.”
“We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.”
Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
“We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.”
“We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work.”
“We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award”
“We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.”
“We forget that the sweetest joys are found in the simplest acts: hugs, laughter, quiet observation, basic movements, holding hands, pleasant music, shared stories, a listening ear, an unhurried visit, and selfless service. It is sad we forget a truth so elementary.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.”
“We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the moonlight and become instead, the pool of water reflecting it.”
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra
“We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.”
“We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget that in the resistance of the minority some of the biggest things in our own history have been accomplished, and the man who looks on the Stars and Stripes and doesn't hold a right to say nay to his neighbor, even if the neighbor is of the larger party, has forgotten the history of his country.”
“We forget that there is no hope of joy except in human relations. If I summon up those memories that have left with me an enduring savor, if I draw up the balance sheet of the hours in my life that have truly counted, surely I find only those that no wealth could have procured me. True riches cannot be bought.”
Source: Wind, Sand and Stars
“We forget that there might be a limit to our imagination, but there is no limit to what we can achieve.”
“We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.”
“We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.”
“We forget that we are more than human beings on a spiritual journey; the fact is we're spiritual beings on a human journey.”
Source: Heaven Is So Real: Expanded with Testimonials
“We forget that we create the situations, then we give our power away by blaming the other person for our frustration. No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for “we” are the only thinkers in our mind. We create our experiences, our reality, and everyone in it. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our mind, we will find it in our lives.”
“We forget that we humans are animals, inextricably connected to the world and everything in it. In the rush to bring GMO food to the world because it was good for us, nobody had asked the question whether it would be good for the world.”
Source: An Involuntary Spy
“We forget that we were put on earth to learn something. If everything were perfect in this life, we would never learn anything new. We would not be able to elevate our spirits through the events that happen to us.”
“We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.”
“We forget that, although each of the liberties which have been won must be defended with utmost vigour, the problem of freedom is not only a quantitative one, but a qualitative one; that we not only have to preserve and increase the traditional freedom, but that we have to gain a new kind of freedom, one which enables us to realize our own individual self; to have faith in this self and in life.”
Source: Fascism, Power, and Individual Rights: Escape from Freedom, To Have or To Be?, and The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
“We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a position where much of what "he" thinks and says are the things that everybody else thinks and says; that he has not acquired the ability to think originally - that is, for himself - which alone gives meaning to his claim that nobody can interfere with the expression of his thoughts.”
Source: Escape from Freedom
“We forget the conditions - not only in slavery - but after slavery, when there was this purposeful locking out of African Americans from economic opportunity. Or we forget today's incarceration rates, and educational and housing discrimination; all of these things. We pretend that everything that has happened happened long ago, and then we act as if we all now just treat each other equally, everything will be fine.”
“We forget the gospel when we neglect our adoption and think that we're still just a hired servant. The Father doesn't let us come to him on those terms. We will either come as sons or we will stay with the pigs. He won't let us earn anything from him because there will be no boasting in his sight. It will either be that Jesus and his glorious gospel has the preeminence or we will go it on our own.”
“We forget the little things, so it's no wonder some of us screw up the big things.”