#forgetful

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes. ↗

— Robert Greene

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Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way…Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, ‘there is joy is self-forgetfulness.’ So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness. ↗

— Helen Keller

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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from. ↗

— Alain de Botton

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Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

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The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

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

— Robert Byrd

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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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