#memo

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#characteristic #desire #i #jewish #jewish people

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#i #memoir #must #say #truthful

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#i #ideal #life #memory #my life

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#glorify #i #kingdom #major #memory

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#culture #future #memory #society #without

Too many years fighting back tears. Why can't the past just die? Wishing you were somehow here again, knowing we must say goodbye. Try to forgive, teach me to live, give me the strength to try! No more memories, no more silent tears, no more gazing across the wasted years. Help me say goodbye. ↗

— Charles Hart

#musical #forgiveness

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#brains #face #figure #grace #hide

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#another #another way #committed #effort #endeavor

Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness. ↗

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

#goodness #gratitude #heart #his #homage

In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#am #amazing #anywhere #competition #development