"Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting."

-- Joyce Appleby

#Remember Quotes #Forget Quotes #Sanity Quotes

“Change is a constant. Anything you get attached to will one day be gone. Love the things you love as best as you can love them in the time you have in their presence. And that change, though I'm often fearful of it, has presented me with some of the greatest surprises I've ever received. I'm learning to become friends with it.”
“As I tell people about genocide, I get the opportunity to redeem myself. Iâ€™ve had the chance to do something thatâ€™s worth me being alive... The more I tell people, the less the nightmares haunt me.”

Source : Loung Ung (2012). “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers”, Random House
“I used to be really cute. I could send you earlier photos where I'm stunning. But I've gained about twenty pounds over the past two years, and the more weight I've put on, the more success I've had. If you drew a diagram of weight gain and me getting more work, a mathematician would draw some conclusions from that.”
“David Ortiz is an icon. He is one of a kind. But we'll do our best job to replace the offensive aspect, however we can.”

Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
“If you're feeling really sad, there is only one reason: it's because you're deleting all the reasons you could be feeling good. And if you're feeling good, it's because you're deleting all the bad things you could be focusing on.”
“I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.”
“I mean the whole economy just comes to a grinding halt. Competence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. Indispensable. You can go years without thinking about it. When it's gone for five minutes, it's the only thing you think about. And the oxygen has been sucked out of the credit markets.”
“To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.”

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