Quotes About Remembering

I'd gotten lucky too, if that was the word for it. if I hadn't been watching Frankie at the orphanage, if I hadn't followed her for so long, maybe I would never have met Marguerite, maybe I never would have remembered myself, come back to myself, rewritten my own story. The door to heaven didn't open up for me, but not everyone was that kind of angel" -Pearl

We can see the tension here. The anticipating self gets to don the identity of "cool mom who is going to take her kids ice skating." The remembering self gets to enjoy the memory. It is the experiencing self who actually has to get up off the couch, get misdirected by her GPS to the bus circle above the rink parking lot, and fumble with the change machine to score quarters for her shoe locker rental. This can seem like an unfair division of labor.

All praise is due to Allah. Allah is the One Reality, and that Reality is Love. We humans are love returning to Love. Sufis have taught great wisdom to humanity regarding the clearest ways to make that "return." The finest way is through remembering (dhikr) Allah at all times, and knowing that Allah alone exists.

forgiving is not the same as forgetting.

Life is a school where you learn how to remember what your soul already knows.

Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.

N]othing is more odious to the auditor, than the artless tongue of a tedious dolt, which dulls the delight of hearing, and slacketh the desire of remembering.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

A trigger that is part of the healing process is recovery itself. During recovery, we "remember" what we have "forgotten." For a moment it hurts all over again. But if we can get through that reexperiencing of the pain with the help of a solid recovery support network, there is freedom on the other side. Actually the fear of the pain is often worse than the pain itself.

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

Before the art of illumination there was blackness and afterward there will also be blackness. Through our colors, paints, art and love, we remember that Allah had commanded us to "See"! To know is to remember that you've seen. To see is to know without remembering. Thus, painting is remembering the blackness.

The only gift I have," said Hull, "is the gift of remembering all kindnesses, and trusting those worthy of trust.

He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

Rich dreams now which he was loathe to wake from. Things no longer known in the world. The cold drove him forth to mend the fire. Memory of her crossing the lawn toward the house in the early morning in a thin rose gown that clung to her breasts. He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the word and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

Ten presente que las cosas que te metes en la cabeza están ahí para siempre. Quizá deberías pensar en eso. —Algunas cosas las olvidas, ¿no? —Sí. Olvidas lo que quieres recordar y recuerdas lo que quieres olvidar.

Man glömmer det man vill minnas och man minns det man vill glömma.

Esquecemo-nos de algumas coisas, não é? Sim. Esquecemo-nos do que queríamos recordar e recordamos o que queríamos esquecer.

forget them, or the loss of them all will drive you mad. But his heart simply did not obey. Memories, so sweet and so bitter … they had both nourished and devoured him for so many years. Until a time came when they began to fade, turning faint and blurred, only an ache to be quickly pushed away because it went to your heart. For what was the use of remembering all you had lost?

There's things I remember and things I forget. I miss you; I guess that I should.

THAT WAS IT. A life worth remembering is hell to live.

We can remove the blocks to realizing our Higher Power by experiencing (including living in the Now), remembering, forgiving and surrendering (these five realizations can be viewed as being ultimately the same). Regular spiritual practices help us with this realization. (138)