George Eliot

"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."

- George Eliot, author

Kurt Vonnegut

"Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information."

- Kurt Vonnegut, author

Dr. Seuss

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."

- Dr. Seuss, author and cartoonist

Bahya Ibn Paquda

"If we could not forget, we would never be free from grief."

- Bahya Ibn Paquda, philosopher and rabbi

Confucius

"Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses."

- Confucius, philosopher and social activist

Albert Schweitzer

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."

- Albert Schweitzer, theologian, musician, philosopher and physician

Maya Angelou

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

– Maya Angelou, poet and author

James Branch Cabell

"There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted."

- James Branch Cabell, author