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Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist

“In what a delightful communion with God does that man live who habitually seeketh love! With the same mantle thrown over him from the cross - with the same act of amnesty, by which we hope to be saved - injuries the most provoked, and transgressions the most aggravated, are covered in eternal forgetfulness.”

Men Doe Eternal Forgiveness Crosses Saved Injury Thrown Covered Communion Delightful Forgetfulness Transgression Communion With God Amnesty Provoked Aggravated

Author:Elias Lyman Magoon

“Lady of silences Calm and distressed Torn and most whole Rose of memory Rose of forgetfulness Exhausted and life-giving Worried reposeful The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end Terminate torment Of love unsatisfied The greater torment Of love satisfied End of the endless Journey to no end Conclusion of all that Is inconclusible Speech without word and Word of no speech Grace to the Mother For the Garden Where all love ends.”

Source: Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950

“Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.”

Real Being Yourself Remembrance Rebirth Forgetfulness Death Remembrance

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.”

America Past Justice Pay Diversity Social Justice Ugly Debt Persist Forgetfulness Cloaks Misdeeds

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.”

“Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.”

Men Made Injustice Complaining Arrogance Forgetfulness Ingratitude Rudeness

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?”

“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar.”

Soul Stars Sleep Forget Our Lives Birth Setting Settings Afterlife Elsewhere Reincarnation Incarnation Forgetfulness Eulogy Afar Funeral Memorial

Author:William Wordsworth

“The word 'sin' is beautiful; it comes from a root which means 'forgetfulness'. You may not be able to see the connection between forgetfulness and sin, but there IS a connection: forgetfulness means unawareness, unconsciousness.”

May Mean Able Beautiful Sin Roots Connections Forgetfulness Unconsciousness Unawareness

Author:Rajneesh

“Right awareness is awareness of one's own being in its totality: all that is good and all that is bad. But as you become aware, the bad starts disappearing - just as when you bring light into the room, the darkness disappears. When light is in the room, darkness cannot exist there. Sin is darkness, forgetfulness, unconsciousness.”

Light Sin Rooms Darkness Awareness Disappear Forgetfulness Totality Unconsciousness

Author:Rajneesh

“Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all as if in sleep - not conscious of what he is doing, not conscious of what he is saying, not conscious of all that surrounds him. He moves surrounded in a dark cloud of unawareness. According to Gautama the Buddha, this is the original sin: to live unconsciously, to act out of unconsciousness. In fact, the word 'sin' comes from a root which means forgetfulness. Sin simply means that we are not conscious, aware, alert, that we don't have any inner light to guide us.”

Ifs Men Mean Facts Light Moving Dark Sleep Sin Walks Conscious Roots Originals Clouds Guides Awake Surround Robots Forgetfulness Original Sin Unconsciousness Inner Light Dark Clouds Unawareness

Author:Rajneesh

“Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!”

Thinking Persons Forget Baby Months Genius Capacity Temperament Forgetfulness Freshness Grownups

Book:Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

Source: Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

“Don't you ever orget that in the end, our future is tied to people, that it's more about ideas than a tax.”

People Ends Forget Our Future Tied Forgetfulness

Author:William J. Clinton

“I never forgive, but I always forget.”

Forget Forgiveness Forgiving Never Forget Forgetfulness Never Forgive

Author:Arthur Balfour

“Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.”

Want Remember Forget His Eyes Forgetfulness Remembers Everything Janie Eyes Watching

Author:Zora Neale Hurston

“The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.”

Age Names History Forgotten Founders Pyramids Forgetfulness Forgetful

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“I teach: when pain is there, use it as awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there, then use it as a drowning, as a forgetfulness. Both are ways to reach God. One is to remember yourself totally, and one is to forget yourself, totally.”

Ifs Way Soul Use Pain Remember Forget Pleasure Meditation Awareness Forgetfulness Forget You Sharpening

Author:Rajneesh

“It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement.”

People Fall Lost Liberty Society Subjects Incredibles Forgetfulness Obeying Enslavement

Author:Etienne de La Boetie

“What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of everlasting and thankful memory.”

Done Memories Silence Worthy Thank You Everlasting Forgetfulness Thank You God Gratitude To God

Book:Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings

Source: Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings

“None in this age will amass wealth except those having five traits ofcharacter. High hopes; abnormal greediness; excessive miserliness, lack of fearing Allaah; and forgetfulness of the coming world.”

World Wisdom Age Wealth Five Islamic Traits Forgetfulness Abnormal Greediness

Author:Sufyan al-Thawri

“As far as I'm concerned it's the other way round. We repeat what we remember. Only forgetfulness sets us free.”

Way Remember Concerned Rounds Repeats Forgetfulness

Author:Margot Livesey

“The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.”

Nations Forget Military Army Forgotten Navy Forgetfulness Defenders Inspirational Military Royal Navy

Book:The Rise of Saint Calvin: Merry Sidelights on the Career of Mr. Coolidge

Source: The Rise of Saint Calvin: Merry Sidelights on the Career of Mr. Coolidge

“A man stays alive as long as he is remembered. He is killed only by forgetfulness.”

Men Long Alive Remembered Forgetfulness Staying Alive

Author:Richard Basehart

“We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return to Western culture after time in desert, mountain or forest, I discover how we have filled our world with a multiplicity of noises, a symphony of forgetfulness that keeps our won thoughts and realizations, feelings and intuitions out of audible range.”

Source: The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom

“Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.”

Pain Forget Pleasure Remembrance Oblivion Forgetfulness Pain Pleasure

Book:The Discipline of Transcendence: Discourses on the Forty-two Sutras of Buddha

Source: The Discipline of Transcendence: Discourses on the Forty-two Sutras of Buddha

“True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.”

Self Christian Humility Christian Inspirational Modesty Forgetfulness True Humility Self Forgetfulness False Modesty

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Spiritual leaders teach that waking up is a process, that it doesn't just happen once and for all, but must occur again and again when we realize we have forgotten the miracle of being alive, and in recognizing our forgetfulness, we wake to the miracle once again. In the moments we are awake to the wonder of simply being alive, gratitude flows, no matter our circumstances.”

Source: Attitudes of Gratitude, 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life

“Keeping a [journal] need not be a major chore-just a few minutes of notes each day can be valuable. Writing crystallizes insights, fools the defense of forgetfulness, and builds a collection of ideas and reflections that can spur further insights even years later.”

Inspirational Needs Writing Years Ideas Minutes Fool Majors Reflection Notes Valuable Insight Defense Each Day Collections Journal Forgetfulness Spurs Chores Keeping A Journal

Author:Roger N. Walsh

“What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.”

Life Dark Blood Inspire Cold Suicide Embrace Yield Worth Living Forgetfulness Stains Life Death Life Worth Living Cold Heart Living Better

Author:Zane Grey

“Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.”

Life Mind Memories Forgetfulness Misers Spendthrift

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of exteriorized attention, internal wholeness becomes Communion. By virtue of self-forgetfulness, Communion becomes Union.”

Life Mean Self Poetry Attention Virtue Unions Unity Awakening Internals Communion Wholeness Fullness Forgetfulness Invocation Self Forgetfulness

Author:David Truman

“There are three influences which appear to Us to have the chief place in effecting this downgrade movement of society. These are-first, the distaste for a simple and laborious life; secondly, repugnance to suffering of any kind; thirdly, the forgetfulness of the future life.”

Firsts Kind Suffering Three Simple Influence Movement Chiefs Forgetfulness Future Life Distaste

Author:Pope Leo XIII

“It is painful to be consciously of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness. I am not afraid to live on and on, if only I do not have to remember too much. A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.”

Ifs World Long Two Running Past Remember Too Much Painful Jew Heavy Wander Remembered Not Afraid Limbs Garments Forgetfulness Two Worlds

Book:The Promised Land

Source: The Promised Land

“I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.”

Forget Forgiveness Forgiving Forgetfulness Forget The Past

Author:Chaim Herzog

“Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.”

Memories Forgetfulness

Book:Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

“If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.”

Ifs Men Dream Faces Sin Sun Safe Red Dresses Committed Evening Ties Brown Boots Sheer Forgetfulness Conjecture

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)

“Forgetfulness of God's grace is one of the greatest tools in the enemy's war against our souls.”

War Soul Enemy Grace Tools Forgetfulness God's Grace

Author:Mark Dever

“To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.”

Way Years Self Wonderful Strange Discovery Self Discovery Awake Fascinating Chords Penetrate Forgetfulness Vibrate Old Ways

Book:Sea and Sardinia

Source: Sea and Sardinia

“Wherever God may keep you at any time, from there itself must you undertake the pilgrimage to God-realization. In all forms, in action and non-action is He, the One Himself. While attending to your work with your hands, keep yourself bound to Him by sustaining japa, the constant remembrance of Him in your heart and mind. In God's empire, it is forgetfulness of Him that is detrimental. The way to Peace lies in the remembrance of Him and of Him alone.”

Way Mind Heart May Hands Action Form Lying Constant Bounds Realization Empires Remembrance Heart And Mind Forgetfulness Pilgrimage Attending Sustaining Detrimental

Author:Anandamayi Ma

“To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.”

Littles Self Happiness Loses Justice Ego Elements Conscious Miserable Forgetfulness Lumps Losing Yourself Weighing Self Forgetfulness

Author:Joseph Priestley

“God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.”

Knows Forgetfulness Forgetful

Author:Cesare Lombroso

“I AM is a feeling of permanent awareness. The very center of consciousness is the feeling of I AM. I may forget who I am, where I am, what I am, but I cannot forget that I Am. The awareness of being remains, regardless of the degree of forgetfulness of who, where, and what I am.”

May Feelings Forget Consciousness Awareness Degrees Remains Who I Am Permanent Forgetfulness I Am What I Am

Book:The Power of Awareness: With linked Table of Contents

Source: The Power of Awareness: With linked Table of Contents

“The Finns also have a bent for drink, even though there is no wine here whatsoever, except for illicit tavern keeping, which is harshly suppressed. But, all the way to St. Petersburg, the Finn will drink himself into forgetfulness, lose his money, horse, bridle, and return home poorer than a church rat.”

Way Home Loses Church Return Drink Horse Wine Rats Bent Forgetfulness Taverns

Author:Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

“I would rather instill in my amateur students love, than knowledge, of music. Left with only knowledge, they will at the end close their books and consign the course to forgetfulness. But if they have learned to love but the smallest part of the art, they are likely to pursue some phase of it the rest of their lives.”

Ifs Art Book Ends Courses Left Students Pursue Phases Smallest Forgetfulness Instill

Book:Notes on the Piano

Source: Notes on the Piano

“My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to write and tell him that he was never going to die, that somehow he would always be present in my life, because he had a theory that death didn't exist, only forgetfulness did. He believed that if you can keep people in your memory, they will live forever. That's what he did with my grandmother.”

Source: Conversations with Isabel Allende: Revised Edition

“I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.”

Father Fate Constitution Extremes Bitter Bitterness Our Father Forgetfulness Partisanship

Author:Robert Byrd

“A baby is expected. A trip is expected. News is expected. Forgetfulness is expected. An invitation is expected. Hope is expected. But memories are not expected. They just come.”

Memories Baby News Expected Invitations Forgetfulness

Author:Giannina Braschi

“There is a sad forgetfulness of Christian modesty, especially in the life and dress of women.”

Christian Dresses Modesty Forgetfulness

Author:Alice von Hildebrand

“It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.”

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