#remembering

Ever poised on that cusp between past and future, we tie memories to souvenirs like string to trees along life’s path, marking the trail in case we lose ourselves around a bend of tomorrow’s road. ↗

— Susan Lendroth

#memory #nostalgia #past #remembering #souvenir

People always talk about how hard it can be to remember things - where they left their keys, or the name of an acquaintance - but no one ever talks about how much effort we put into forgetting. I am exhausted from the effort to forget... There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living. ↗

— Stephen Carpenter

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How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#him #how #i #little #man

I nicknamed everyone in the gym. It was easier than remembering their names. ↗

— Joe Gold

#everyone #gym #i #names #remembering

It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#being #being honest #discipline #every #full

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#been #body #centre #god #join

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#both #both sides #built #europe #how

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet. ↗

— Joan Jett

#being #being happy #concentrating #happy #having

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#duty #obliged #position #remembering #who

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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