"Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight."

-- David Hackett Fischer

#Memories Quotes #Grief Quotes #Past Quotes

“I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.”

Source : Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.182, Random House
“I don't think there's anything immature about fighting for the underdog and fighting for people who don't have a voice. I have an intense desire to protect people who can't protect themselves.”
“Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God.”
“Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory”

Source : Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “Thirteenth Child”, p.96, Scholastic Inc.
“Weâ€™re now recognizing that the mind, which is an energetic field of thought which you can read with EEG wires on your brain or with a new process called magnetoencephalography (MEG), which reads the field without even touching the body. So it basically says that when youâ€™re processing with your brain, youâ€™re broadcasting fields.”
“A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do; he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.”
“As the eye naturally seeks the light and vision, and our body naturally desires food and drink, so our mind is possessed with a becoming and natural desire to become acquainted with the truth of God and the causes of things.”

Source : Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.158, Jazzybee Verlag
“Muslims should live like brothers.”

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