“I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories.”

“I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.”

Virginia Satir (1916–1988) American psychologist

“You are responsible for all of your successes, and the lack thereof. And that is the essential point that failure, your ever-faithful friend, wants to make: that your failure could not exist without you—without your stupidity, without your lies, without your mistakes, your uselessness, your lack of faith, your ineptitude, your unjustifiable confidence in your alleged abilities, you stupid loser—failure is your only friend. Failure is your only lover. Failure is your only hope.”

John S. Hall (1960) Poet, author, singer, lawyer

“I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.”

Joseph Heller (1923–1999) American author

“A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.”

Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) Yiddish language author and playwright

“Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.”

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist

“Dialogue and monologue are silenced. Bundled together, men march without Thou and without I, those of the left who want to abolish memory, and those of the right who want to regulate it: hostile and separated hosts, they march into the common abyss.”

Martin Buber (1878–1965) German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian

“You can surrender
Without a prayer
But never really pray
Pray without surrender
You can fight
Without ever winning
But never ever win
Without a fight
-- Resist (1996)”

Neil Peart (1952–2020) Canadian-American drummer , lyricist, and author

“What are we, after all, without our memories … without our dreams?”

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

“Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.”

Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao