To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

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To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before.

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All great and precious things are lonely. ― John Steinbeck

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The single biggest obstacle to us getting what we really need and want in life is right here. It's ourselves. — William Ury

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You need to be happy to live, i don't. ― Keanu Reeves

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But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself,into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously.

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You control your destiny — you don’t need magic to do it. And there are no magical shortcuts to solving your problems. – Merida, Brave

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The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness and pain. .. YOU be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.

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Life comes with pain. -Rod Wave

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If you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up.

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