Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.
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DUMAS THE YOUNGER Friendship consists in forgetting; what one gives, and remembering what one receives ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting. BRIAN TRACY Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it. ALLY CONDIE There are times when forgetting can be just as important as remembering- and even more difficult. UNKNOWN The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remember... JOHN GRAY When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin. SARA ZARR Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting. ELIZABETH BIBESCO I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting. ANN BRASHARES Remembering is only a new form of suffering. CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials. ADOLF HITLER Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. ELIZABETH ASQUITH BIBESCO Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting. PRINCESS ELIZABETH ASQUITH BIBESCO Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. ELIZABETH BIBESCO We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, ver... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Sometimes not remembering may be for the better. CRYSTAL DAWN SHEPHERD Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggera... KOFI ANNAN Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting. BERNARD MELTZER For me, reading is remembering. CAT PATRICK Grow your courage by remembering each day is a gift. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth. MASON COOLEY Remembering life before the boat makes me incapable of forgetting life after the boat. THEE AMAZING GRACE I guess the worst part about getting old, is remembering when you were young. ALVIN STRAIGHT Sometimes the hardest part of existing without your loved ones was remembering how to breathe. BRITTAINY C. CHERRY I don't like remembering. Remembering makes me feel things. I don't like to feel things. BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ All memory is individual, unreproducible - it dies with each person. What is called collective memor... SUSAN SONTAG It’s not easy remembering the good times. CECELIA AHERN And she is remembering the words I put in her head...."You is kind," she say, "you is smart. You is ... KATHRYN STOCKETT The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have. SøREN KIERKEGAARD Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yours... THOMAS KEMPIS Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yours... THOMAS A KEMPIS You are speaking...as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing... ... C.S. LEWIS Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash. JOYCE BROTHERS Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash. DR. JOYCE BROTHERS We have to keep remembering that it is a first year, ... is not a small amount of money. JAMES DORAN If you wait, I will come for you...remembering your touch, your kiss, your warm embrace. I'll My fin... TRACY CHAPMAN I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, n... JEANETTE WINTERSON Remembering. ANNE FRANK There's a word for it," she told me, "in French, for when you have a lingering impression of somethi... ROBYN SCHNEIDER Meeting new people is just remembering faces of God we've forgotten. HARRY WHITEWOLF He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the wo... CORMAC MCCARTHY The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering. BRUCE LEE Not that any of this is ever easy, remembering it. It is important to me, as a former sergeant in th... JOYCE MILLER Forgiveness is remembering the truth of who you are. STEPHEN RICHARDS Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering. ERASMUS May you never forget what is worth remembering, nor ever remember what is best forgotten IRISH BLESSINGS The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that reme... GARY WOLF Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted... WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Speak not too well of one who scarce will knowHimself transfigured in its roseate glow;Say kindly of... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The biggest mistake regarding record-keeping is not writing things down or not remembering where you... DAVID MELLEM The Hardest Part Not the loving, but the part just after— the remembering NEENA H BRAR The patient cannot remember the whole of what is repressed in him, and what he cannot remember may b... SIGMUND FREUD Understand that while home improvement projects can increase the value and comfort of your home, mos... CATE WILLIAMS Doreene Clement has created the best Journal. This is my fourth year using it and
I love remembering... LOUISE L. HAY No matter what you do if it isn't genuine it's not worth doing, if it isn't meant with good heart it... E.E.D. HORTON A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times. ALFRED LORD TENNYSON It's a small town remembering what it's like to be an American. SANDY WILSON Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or Englis... KARL LAGERFELD What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it MARK TWAIN Happy birthday, Alexander," Magnus murmured. "Thanks for remembering," Alec whispered back. CASSANDRA CLARE Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day... DR. JOYCE BROTHERS I'm a writer obsessed with remembering: with remembering the past of America above all - and abo... EDUARDO GALEANO Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly ... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Remembering someone is not always missing them but thinking of someone,is always missing them KIMBERLY SHILENJE So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincer... JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness ... ROHINTON MISTRY I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking ste... TONY ABBOTT Martin Luther King Day is unique because a lot of it (service project) is family friendly. It's a da... CHRISTINE BARTLETT Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now. FREDERICK DODSON Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love. BIBLE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed. JULIAN BARNES When you call you are remembering Lauren. DAWN ANNA Unhappiness remembering happiness. EURIPIDES We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them. JOHN GREEN There are so few people left alive from back then, you may as well be talking to them about the Blac... HARRY LESLIE SMITH Time is running out for most antique paper, ... Modern technology is a part of God's plan to help no... ANN BROWN If I don't recognize you, it's just that you were'nt worth remembering. CLYDE DESOUZA People always talk about how hard it can be to remember things - where they left their keys, or the ... STEPHEN CARPENTER Great mind thinks the same way twice SUMAN MITRA Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried... REBECCA STEAD A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times. ALFRED LORD TENNYSON What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our d... E.M. FORSTER I remember getting out of the cab and hearing an incredibly loud whistle, OPRAH WINFREY Because If you ever think of me in the future I want you to remember me smiling EIICHIRō ODA Forgiveness is no easy task; it takes a lifetime of remembering to move on LDARNELL To tell your soul that you love it, is like remembering who you are after being in a coma for a hund... SUZY KASSEM Life is like a cell phone battery if you don't pay attention to or appreciate it. It's like not reme... JAY PARIS When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering wh... CHARLES SPURGEON
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