I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.
The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.
They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where your troubles fit into the grand scheme of things, and suddenly they're just not such a big deal anymore.
I fancied you'd return the way you said,_x000D_ _x000D_ But I grow old and I forget your name._x000D_ _x000D_ (I think I made you up inside my head.)
Do you want to be happy? Forget yourself and get lost in this great cause.
Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.
Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Do every day a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone's face.
Looking at a sunset, just for a second you forget your separateness: you are the sunset. That is the moment when you feel the beauty of it. But the moment you say that it is a beautiful sunset, you are no longer feeling it; you have come back to your separate, enclosed entity of the ego. Now the mind is speaking. And this is one of the mysteries, that the mind can speak, and knows nothing; and the heart knows everything, and cannot speak.
You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.
I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.
Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure - you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you.
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