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Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could;
some blunders and absurdities have crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day;
you shall begin it serenely
and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
By forgetting the past and by throwing myself
into other interests, I forget to worry.
- Jack Dempsey
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
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Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.
- George Allen, Sr.
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.
Close the door on the past.
You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it.
You don't let it have any of your energy,
or any of your time, or any of your space.
- Johnny Cash
I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new.
I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
- Brian Eno
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes,
so live not in your yesterdays, nor just for tomorrow,
but in the here and now.
Keep moving and forget the post mortems;
and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
- Carl Sandburg
In this bright future you can't forget your past.
- Bob Marley
We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.'
It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned
in the past and one we should never forget.
- Paul Gillmor
I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.
- Mick Jagger
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.
- Robert Smithson
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
- Harold Pinter
How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.
- David Wilkerson
A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.
- Doug Coupland
Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.
- Slobodan Milosevic
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
- Ethel Barrymore
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
- Lewis B. Smedes
And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.
- Jeffrey Archer
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
You're only here for a short visit.
So don't forget to stop and smell the roses.
- Walter Hagen
The more a man can forget, the greater the number
of metamorphoses which his life can undergo,
the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
- Soren Kierkegaard
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
It does not do to dwell on dreams, ...
and forget to live.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
As we express our gratitude,
we must never forget that the highest appreciation
is not to utter words, but to live by them.
- John F. Kennedy
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't
come as a result of getting something we don't have,
but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
- Frederick Koenig
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
- Publilius Syrus
We're so engaged in doing things
to achieve purposes of outer value
that we forget the inner value,
the rapture that is associated
with being alive, is what it is all about.
- Joseph Campbell
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget,"
is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.
Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -
torn in two, and burned up,
so that it never can be shown against one.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I will not forget you.
Love me and I may be forced to love you.
- William Arthur Ward
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try to understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.
- Arundhati Roy
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
I know why families were created with all their imperfections.
They humanize you.
They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally,
so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
- Anais Nin
First, wash all car. Then wax. Wax on...
Wax on, right hand. Wax off, left hand. Wax on, wax off.
Breathe in through nose, out the mouth. Wax on, wax off.
Don't forget to breathe, very important.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
There are three rules for dating:
1) Don't;
2) If you must, just be careful;
3) Forget the rules, your hormones will win anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In my afternoon walk I would fain forget
all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
- Henry David Thoreau
"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.
Forget love... I'd rather fall in chocolate.
- Anonymous
Looking at a sunset, just for a second
you forget your separateness:
you are the sunset.
That is the moment when you feel the beauty of it.
But the moment you say that it is a beautiful sunset,
you are no longer feeling it;
you have come back to your separate,
enclosed entity of the ego.
Now the mind is speaking.
- Osho
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife.
Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life.
But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways,
We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days.
Hearts full of youth,
Hearts full of truth,
Six parts gin to one part vermouth.
- Tom Lehrer - song: Bright College Days,
album: An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
Concern for man and his fate must always form
the chief interest of all technical endeavors.
Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
- Albert Einstein
Thank you, gentlemen. Someday I will repay you,
unless of course I can't find you, or if I forget.
- the movie Shrek 2
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
- Margaret Fuller
It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.
- Christopher Dodd
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
- Gertrude Stein
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.
- Henry Cantwell Wallace
Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.
- Paula Abdul
Expectation (demand) is always a cause of suffering.
Rather than "expecting" to be repaid
when we "loan" something to someone,
consider the "loans" we make to be forward payments
for the "loans" we received from
our ancestors, nurturers and others.
Request that any "loan" that we make be repaid FORWARD,
when the recipient is able,
and then completely forget about the "loan."
It is no longer our business if, when, or how
the "loan" is repaid - or is not repaid.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
- Roy L. Smith
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
- Ellen Glasgow
Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.
- Jay Leno
Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.
- James Randolph Adams
I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.
- Chaim Herzog
Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
- Tammy Bruce
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
- Lionel Trilling
But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.
- Herbie Hancock
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity,
for in prosperity we forget God.
- Dwight L. Moody
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
- Nelson Rockefeller
Forget your opponents; always play against par.
- Sam Snead
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
- John Berger
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