As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.
I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.
Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
I teach: when pain is there, use it as awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there, then use it as a drowning, as a forgetfulness. Both are ways to reach God. One is to remember yourself totally, and one is to forget yourself, totally.
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.
The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.
Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Life is like a garden. Quite naturally, leaves wither and flowers fade. Only if we clear the decay of the past then and there can we really enjoy the beauty of the new leaves and flowers. Likewise, we must clear the murkiness of the past bad experiences from our minds. Life is remembrance in forgetfulness. Forgive what ought to be forgiven; forget what ought to be forgotten. Let us embrace life with renewed vigor. We should be able to face every moment of life with renewed expectation, like a freshly blossomed flower.
Memory only becomes interesting through its struggle with forgetfulness.
Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory
Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.
Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.
Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.
Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable.
It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know.
Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
Forgetting and remembering are governed by laws, but we cannot find out what they are.
You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.
There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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