When we look at the flowers, we suddenly forget so many important things. We forget that all flowers die. We forget that winter will come again. We forget that nothing really endures and that, like the flowers that die at the end of the growing season, we'll join them in the cold ground.
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Related To say to that you will never forget ,is always a sincere and an honest way to express ones self to ... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... Never forget: we walk on hell, gazing at flowers. KOBAYASHI ISSA Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betr... JOAN DIDION Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We often forget that everything we see, animate or inanimate, is a visual manifestation of the work ... MOTHER ANGELICA Direction is more important than speed. We are so busy looking at our speedometers that we forget th... HENRY DAVID THOREAU I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister. TRISHA LEAVER Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma... TRISHA LEAVER With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th... TRISHA LEAVER We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We hate Simple Minds. They were no.1 in our Top Five Bands or Musicians who will have to be shot com... NICK HORNBY We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. JOAN DIDION We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget JOAN DIDION The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves. CRAIG GROESCHEL All these bad experiences that we go through, they don't just disappear. We carry them our whole lif... ASPER BLURRY we live to forgive & we die to forget. 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And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We watch so many TV shows and movies about jaded or corrupt policemen, we forget people join the pol... ENRICO COLANTONI ...I think we are well-advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we fi... JOAN DIDION Most of us can forgive and forget; we just don't want the other person to forget that we forgave IVERN BALL We concentrate so much on anniversaries and birthdays that you forget it's the Tuesday that'... BJ THE CHICAGO KID We were doing real well at the start of the game and we lost track of some of the things that got us... DAVE BLISS The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic... ODO SIMON AGBO Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS We do not choose to be born...We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of ou... JOSEPH EPSTEIN All talented people are not successful for lets not forget that all beautiful flowers does not have ... PRABHA We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read ... ANNE HATHAWAY We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us. DAN QUINN That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,... CRAIG GROESCHEL I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find ... JOAN DIDION Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads. ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN We shot the ball really well. I was almost worried that we were shooting it so well that we'd forget... STEVE INGRAM We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practica... G.K. CHESTERTON In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself. ALAN W. WATTS When kids look at broccoli, they call it 'little trees,' because they see it not just for th... NATASHA TRETHEWEY We are this fucking stick in the end... DEYTH BANGER We should not blame people by the mistakes of others. DANIEL MELGAçO Even if things aren't going the way we want right now, we will always get through it. STACEY T. HUNT There's nothing special about this place, he thinks. We all forget. Then we forget what we forgot. A... ADAM STERNBERGH We forget that at the height of the Cold War the United States and the Soviet Union were spending $5... UDAY BHASKAR Our lives!!! We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are with something called life see... SUNDAY ADELAJA Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of... OLIVER STONE It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. HENRY DAVID THOREAU We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In betw... MARY ROACH We just thought, forget that, JUAN MARTINEZ Standing on the edge of that darkness, she felt the stirrings of reckless want. A wild sort of brave... EMILY LLOYD-JONES Weirdly enough, the more we give away, the richer we become. CRAIG GROESCHEL We should never forget that the stars at the top were once grassroots players themselves. ANDY ROXBURGH We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God crea... VLADIMIR PUTIN We lost a tough one in Florida and we wanted to forget that. We have been able to forget them. We're... DANY HEATLEY Somewhere in the ruins above them, the cats are howling. ANTHONY DOERR As our lives speed up more and more, so do our children's. We forget and thus they forget that there... MICHAEL GURIAN Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER This is great because we lost to them earlier in the season at home and you don't forget someone cel... BRIANN MCDONOUGH Sometimes we strive so hard for perfection that we forget that imperfection is happiness KAREN NAVE "We all want to be heard so much that we sometimes forget to listen." jh JIMBO HENDERSON Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly... GARY F EVANS... When you tell me your story or about yourself I understand who you are and are able to share who I a... BRENT M. JONES There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that&... CARL HIAASEN We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner val... JOSEPH CAMPBELL We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men. JORGE LUIS BORGES So much is buried in our lives that we forget what we have learned. HARLEY KING Yesterday, I was feeling fine... I was into the mood of eating... drinking... but today... I am not ... DEYTH BANGER We forget that most students, if not all, can exceed the minimum. HAROLD BROWN We will never forget what we saw and the incredible impact that the hurricane had along the Gulf of ... BARB SCHREIER An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ... ANUROOP TYAGI Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat... DADA BHAGWAN Maybe we will forgive but we will never forget the people, the party and the government that brought... EFFI EITAM We can enjoy this and celebrate, but we know they are a team that we will see in the District 4 play... ELDON HOY We cannot forget the little things we take for granted in America that remain the disdain of dictato... TRENT LOTT Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. We cannot forget that in our group we have Ferrari and Maserati. LUCA CORDERO DI MONTEZEMOLO We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL We forget that us being academics, that we should also be intellectuals. We should be aware of the i... LARRY LONG Forgotten? No, we never do forget:
We let the years go; wash them clean with tears,
Leave the... DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) It is only when we forget out learning that we begin to know. HENRY DAVID THOREAU We get compliments all the time that our flowers last. LEA KLOCK We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and... RALPH WALDO EMERSON One of the things with our movement that sometimes we forget because we're always talking about equa... KATHLEEN DEBOLD
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