"Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting"

-- Lauren Beukes

#Memories Quotes #Forget Quotes

“Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you. What you love and what you think you love because you believe you can't have it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Jul 08, 2014
“we need to let our errors awaken, transform, and change us by taking them to heart, owning them.”

Source : Rafe Martin (2011). “Endless Path: Awakening Within the Buddhist Imagination: Jataka Tales, Zen Practice, and Daily Life”, p.48, North Atlantic Books
“The poem is a cry of the unborn heart. Yes, because the poem perfectly embodies the world, there is no world without poem.”

Source : E.L. Doctorow (2010). “Loon Lake: A Novel”, p.138, Random House
“The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One answer is the unwillingness to restrain oneself. Everybody wants other people to be polite to them, but they want the freedom of not having to be polite to others.”
“In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us....”
“There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.”
“I wanted to create a book that was unafraid of black bodies, yet super interested in thinking about the relationship of love to body and sexuality without relying on tired understandings of "gay" "bi" or "straight."”
“You get one pass at life. Thatâ€™s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.”

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