#remembering

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#i #i can #into #just #learned

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#ease #history #led #life #man

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again. ↗

— John Gray

#also #applying #forgetting #hearing #learning

Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe. ↗

— Ruth St. Denis

#convey #dance #divine #future #gestures

Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things. ↗

— Simon Travaglia

#different #different things #knowing #remembering #rules

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

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#because #book #later #like #living

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

The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him. ↗

— Earl Long

#good #him #i #itches #kind

Take without forgetting, and give without remembering. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#give #remembering #take #without