#forget

Yes, suddenly I saw it clearly: most people deceive themselves with a pair of faiths: they believe in eternal memory (of people, things, deeds, nations) and in redressibility (of deeds, mistakes, sins, wrongs). Both are false faiths. In reality the opposite is true: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be redressed. The task of obtaining redress (by vengeance or by forgiveness) will be taken over by forgetting. No one will redress the wrongs that have been done, but all wrongs will be forgotten. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#forgiving #faith

Forgetting! It is a form of suicide, a renunciation of the only good the we truly and ineluctably possess: the past. For if joys alone were forgotten, perhaps oblivion would be justly desired. But we are proud and jealous of our sorrows, we love them, we want to remember them. It is they that comprise the crown of life. ↗

— Igino Ugo Tarchetti

#fosca #memory #sorrow #trans-lawrence-venuti #life

When you put on the glasses in a 3-D movie they just kind of sit there and you forget about them. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#forget #glasses #just #kind #movie

Forgiveness: best for cleansing. Forgetfulness best for repetition. ↗

— Soul Dancer

#forgiveness #forgiveness

Groan and forget it. ↗

— Jessamyn West

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust. ↗

— Margery Allingham

#dust #every #forgetting #minute #mourning

I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#always #any #building #democracy #dictator

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#attention #claims #does #expose #forget

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#forget #god #lesson #never #never forget

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it. ↗

— Eileen Caddy

#forget #fun #have fun #life #live