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“In difficult times, people too often lose the ability to face the future optimistically. They begin to think about their tomorrow's negatively. They forget that the tough times will pass. They concentrate on the problems of today rather than on the opportunities of tomorrow. In so doing, they not only lose the potential of today, they also throw away the beauty of tomorrow.”

People Thinking Problem Today Faces Opportunity Difficult Loses Ability Forget Tomorrow Tough Difficult Times Tough Times

Book:Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!

Source: Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!

“Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.”

People Ability Forget Oneself Charm Basic Things

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature.”

Ability Forget Childhood Sorrow Features Enchanting

Book:Sixpence in Her Shoe

Source: Sixpence in Her Shoe

“Gratitude is a virtue disposing the mind to an inward sense and an outward acknowledgment of a benefit received, together with a readiness to return the same, or the like, as occasions of the doer of it shall require, and the abilities of the receiver extend to. He who receives a good turn, should never forget it: he who does one, should never remember it.”

Should Mind Doe Together Remember Turns Ability Forget Virtue Return Gratitude Benefits Occasions Never Forget Inward Forget It Readiness Doers Receiver Acknowledgment

Author:Pierre Charron

“The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.”

Able Remember Women Ability Forget Talent Extraordinary

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“I have an amazing ability to forget.”

Author:Gene Mauch

“In the end, the fate of children depends on our ability to use technology constructively and carefully. The connection of childrenand technology is not simply a matter of seat belts, safe toys, safe air, water and food, additive-free baby foods, or improved television programming. These are all important issues, but to stop here is to forget that today's children will soon be adults. Technological decisions made today will determine, perhaps irrevocably, the kind of physical and social world we bequeath them and the kind of people they become.”

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness.. an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.”

Thinking Humans Human Beings Ability Forget Consciousness Effects Self Help Function Ill Producers

Book:You Can be Happy No Matter what: Five Principles for Keeping Life in Perspective

Source: You Can be Happy No Matter what: Five Principles for Keeping Life in Perspective

“The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.”

People Pain Past Ability Forget Mistake Repeats Existential Predecessors Forget The Past

Author:Lu Xun

“Charm is the ability to make others forget that you look as you do.”

Looks Ability Forget Charm

Author:Jean-Paul Belmondo

“The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.”

Ability Forget Focus Bad Things Greatest Gifts

Author:Joe Biden