“Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory”

“We are quick to forgive and forget about the past, or our memories when we find the present satisfying.”

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”

“Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.”

“With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, let me forget about today until tomorrow.”

“Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.”

“That is why individuals and peoples need a “healing of memories”. This does not mean that they have to forget past events. Rather, they have to learn to look at them in a new way. Instead of remaining prisoners of the past, they have to recover their freedom to forgive. As the pope says: “The deadly cycle of revenge must be replaced by the new-found liberty of forgiveness.””

“Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.”

“forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise…”

“The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on.”