It took courage to live an immortal life and not close off your heart and mind to any new experiences or new people. Because that which was new was almost always temporary. And that which was temporary broke your heart.

Cassandra Clare
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We all want to be remembered and we all want to be immortal. We all want to live forever and we all want to be remembered. But, we can't do either of those things. We can't live forever and we can't live without ever forgetting things that happened in the past.

If our memories were like a computer hard drive, we would need infinite memory chips and infinite space, which means we wouldn't be able to take any new information such as new experiences or new people into account while trying to sort out the old data. The greatest challenge in life is accepting that we can't have everything we want and that we will always have things that we don't need anymore and will not be able to identify with our past selves.

Source: City Of Heavenly Fire

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