Forgetfulness Quotes - Page 10

• Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

  May Sarton

  Baby, Thinking, Genius

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.63, Open Road Media

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• To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time.  Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Years, Discovery, Self

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Sea and Sardinia”, p.22, Cambridge University Press

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• Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

  Peter Kreeft

  Humility, Self, Catholic

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• We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

  Angela Davis

  Amnesia, Depends

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• Spiritual leaders teach that waking up is a process, that it doesn't just happen once and for all, but must occur again and again when we realize we have forgotten the miracle of being alive, and in recognizing our forgetfulness, we wake to the miracle once again. In the moments we are awake to the wonder of simply being alive, gratitude flows, no matter our circumstances.

  M. J. Ryan

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Leader

  M.J. Ryan (2009). “Attitudes of Gratitude, 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life”, p.76, Conari Press

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• Your soul has a special mission. Your soul is supremely conscious of it.
  Maya, illusion or forgetfulness, makes you feel that you are finite, weak and helpless. This is not true. You are not the body. You are not the senses. You are not the mind. These are all limited. You are the soul, which is unlimited. Your soul is infinitely powerful. Your soul defies all time and space.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Powerful, Space, Soul

  Sri Chinmoy (2003). “Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy”, p.331, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound.

  Clara Schumann

  Winning, Self, Giving

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• The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Regret, Past, Anxiety

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.96, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• 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. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.

  Jack London

  War, Thinking, Artist

  Jack London (1903). “Call of the Wild”, p.83

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• Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥

  Everett Ruess

  Love, Happiness, Happy

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• Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way…Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, ‘there is joy is self-forgetfulness.’ So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness.

  Helen Keller

  Sweet, Eye, Fate

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• Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.” We do not “come”, we “are.” Don't strive to become, but be.

  Bruce Lee

  Mirrors, Self, Existential

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