“Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.”

“As God blesses your ministry with it, remember that those without it tend to criticize those with it, especially when you do things differently.”

Craig Groeschel (1967) American priest

“Blessed is trust, for it blesses both those who have it to give and those who receive it.”

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer

“Blessings come from a generous heart. Those who give are the most blessed.”

Jun Hong Lu (1959) Australian Buddhist leader

“I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.”

William Lyon Phelps (1865–1943) American author, critic and scholar

“A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.”

Samuel Richardson book The History of Sir Charles Grandison

“There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

“Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment, still less to live through it. Life would be bearable only to frivolous natures, those in fact who do not remember.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

“I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land. You who have it to see, welcome it--and forget not those who have fallen during the night!”

José Rizal book Noli Me Tángere

“Santayana was probably wrong when he said that those who forget the past are condemned to relive it. Those who remember are condemned to relive it too.”

Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist