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[Keepongoing]

besides language, which is obvious, what have you memorized in your life that still inspires, motivates and comforts you?

Please be specific. If poetry; what poem. What quote? etc

a note to Christians: i already know about memorizing Bible verses. so you don't need to mention that. Thank you

[dogshed]

I wish I could determine pi.
Eureka cried the great inventor.
Christmas pudding, Christmas pie,
Is the problem's very center.

Count the letters in each word and you have the digits of pi after the 3.

I found this cool song:
http://pi.ytmnd.com/

[Grimalkin]

[Rock]

Hymns will stand out a lot for me. In other words, religious songs.

These often give me the strongest boost. Consider this one:

"Jehovah Jira, my provider
His grace is sufficient for me. . ."
Or
"God is so Good
God is so good,
God is so good,
He's so good, to me."

I mean these are just the simple ones. Others get quite deep, are personally applicable to specific situations in your life(like living in Korea,) and may be Divinely inspired.

So to this extent, songs help me memorize the most.

But memorizing is almost always 'short-term' if it's to be dredged up for use, the long-term memorized material seldom useful.

[VanIslander]

you don't have to be religious to see the value of the serenity prayer:
(especially while in Korea!)

[faster]

Phone numbers.

[oneofthesarahs]

This quote from "Of Human Bondage" has always stuck with me.

"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me."

[cosmo]

I am a pheasant plucker, and a pheasant plucker's son.

I'll keep on plucking pheasants 'til the pheasant plucking is done.

[cangel]

Multiplication Table

[Richard Krainium]

K. I. S. S.
keep it simple, stupid

[xtchr]

This too shall pass.

Except for when it reminds me of Lord of the Rings 'You shall not pass!'

[sojourner1]

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

[jajdude]

Lt. Col. Frank Slade:

Out of order, I show you out of order. You don't know what out of order is, Mr. Trask. I'd show you, but I'm too old, I'm too tired, I'm too fckin' blind. If I were the man I was five years ago, I'd take a FLAMETHROWER to this place! Out of order? Who the hell do you think you're talkin' to? I've been around, you know? There was a time I could see. And I have seen. Boys like these, younger than these, their arms torn out, their legs ripped off. But there isn't nothin' like the sight of an amputated spirit. There is no prosthetic for that. You think you're merely sending this splendid foot soldier back home to Oregon with his tail between his legs, but I say you are... executin' his soul! And why? Because he's not a Bairdman. Bairdmen. You hurt this boy, you're gonna be Baird bums, the lot of ya. And Harry, Jimmy, Trent, w