Remembrance Quotes

• Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Memorial Day, Courage, Adventure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Courage

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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  In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

  Mark Twain

  Change, Thank You, Memorial Day

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.351, Courier Corporation

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• To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

  William Shakespeare

  Broken Heart, Breakup, Grief

  1592 Richard. Henry VI PartThree, act 2, sc.1, l.85-6.

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• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.191, Harvard University Press

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• To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

  Thomas Campbell

  Sympathy, Death, Memories

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.169

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  It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

  Rose Kennedy

  Time, Pain, Get Well

  Stanley Weintraub, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, John McDonald Burke, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1974). “Whistler”

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• Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Positive, Veterans Day

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.111, London : H. Colburn

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• Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Memorable, Loss

  'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 5, sc. 3, l. 19

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  When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

  Khalil Gibran

  Moving On, Sympathy, Broken Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.

  Chris Marker

  Memories, Ordinary, Scar

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• I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Principles, Given

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• I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.

  Henry Scott Holland

  Memorial, Death Of A Loved One, Dying

  Henry Scott Holland, “Death Is Nothing At All”

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• Today is a day of remembrance that is heavy on my heart.

  Vickie Guerrero

  Heart, Wwe, Today

  Twitter post from Nov 13, 2010

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• Life is like a garden. Quite naturally, leaves wither and flowers fade. Only if we clear the decay of the past then and there can we really enjoy the beauty of the new leaves and flowers. Likewise, we must clear the murkiness of the past bad experiences from our minds. Life is remembrance in forgetfulness. Forgive what ought to be forgiven; forget what ought to be forgotten. Let us embrace life with renewed vigor. We should be able to face every moment of life with renewed expectation, like a freshly blossomed flower.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Flower, Past, Garden

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• As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.836, Best Books on

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• Wherever you are, I am there also.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Love, Wherever You Are

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• The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spring, Past, Blossoming

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1859). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement to the Past Edition : with Elucidations”, p.9

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• What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Remembrance is to the heart what water is to the fish. And what is the state of a fish that leaves water?

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Heart, Water, States

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• You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.

  Luis Bunuel

  Life, Memories, Feelings

  Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.9, Random House

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• No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.

  Terry Pratchett

  Death, Memories, Causes

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: (Discworld Novel 11)”, p.317, Random House

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• It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

  Louis Pasteur

  Motivational, Hero, Difficulty

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• I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

  Elie Wiesel

  Bystanders, Silence, Holocaust

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.141, Macmillan

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• Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Memories, Humor

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