the fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time.
Today is a day of remembrance that is heavy on my heart.
Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.
Forgetfulness is necessary to remembrance. Ideas are retained by renovation of that impression which time is always wearing away,and which new images are striving to obliterate. If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur, and every recurrence would reinstate them in their former place.
I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.
Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!
Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance.
Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee?
Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows, ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves.
A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had.
There's rosemary and rue. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Grace and remembrance be to you.
As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.
Pain is the most individualized thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that realization only comes when it is over. To suffer is to be alone. To watch another suffer is to know the barrier that shuts each of us away by himself Only individuals can suffer.
To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman or casual straggler, and in another age to be lost, even to remembrance. Such is the amount of boasted immortality.
To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.
When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
Sweet. remembrance of the Master is the sum total, of all practices.
Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him. Never, ever stop going back to Him. Repent often. Cry to Allah. And hold on tight-with your life-to His remembrance and to prayer. If you do this, you may get wet, but insha Allah never drown in this ocean of dunya.
The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive. Remembered ones dress up for the occasion and sit still. Memory is a photo studio de luxe on an infinite Fifth Power Avenue.