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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Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush every fear, to hide every pain.

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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

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sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love. ― Gabriel García Márquez

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The hard work of sowing seed in what looks like perfectly empty earth has a time of harvest. All suffering, pain, emptiness, disappointment is seed: sow it in God and He will, finally, bring a crop of joy from it.

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Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory.

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We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.- Donald Trump

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Endure the pain, possess the power. ― Lailah Gifty Akita

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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

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

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