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Forget: Refuse to dwell; let go and loosen one's hold, particularly on memory. To forget is an active - not passive - endeavor.


Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN The difference between you and me is that I couldn’t let you go while you couldn’t hold on
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AANCHAL MALHOTRA Do I forget, or do I refuse to remember?
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ROBERT WALSER I really believe in, 'Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.'
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such a compromising posi...
JACQUELINE FRANCIS - WANTING TO REMEMBER, TRYING TO FORGET It is good medicine to go to a concert hall and forget the harshness of what's going on. It can ...
ITZHAK PERLMAN It is not okay to ‘live and let live,’ to let ‘bygones be bygones,’ to ‘forgive and forget...
BEVERLY ENGEL I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people stari...
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.
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CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.
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CLARRISA PINKOLA ESTES It is easy to forgive an insult, but harder to forget one.
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PAUL GILLMOR

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