Our Memories Quotes

• In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Memories, Giving

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• Our dreams must be stronger than our memories.

  Jesse Jackson

  Dream, Memories, Stronger

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• You don't want to look back at your years with regrets. Regrets have no place in your memory jar.

  Tricia Goyer

  Memories, Regret, Years

  FaceBook post by Tricia Goyer from Mar 28, 2014

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• God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

  James M. Barrie

  Nature, Memories, Rose

  Rectorial Address at St Andrew's, 3 May 1922, in The Times 4 May 1922

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• It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Past, New Day

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.122, Penguin

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• Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Philosophical, Diaries

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.34, Prestwick House Inc

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• Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Family, Friday, Mother

  "Creating Fond Memories With Our Children" by Dr. Hyder Zahed, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2014.

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• Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

  Rosa Parks

  Memories, Deeds, Our Lives

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• Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.

  Jesse Jackson

  Dream, Memories, Political

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• We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

  Jeremy Irons

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

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• We do not remember days, we remember moments.

  Cesare Pavese

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.172, Transaction Publishers

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• Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

  Cyril Connolly

  Memories, Cards, Literature

  "Readings" by Michael Dirda, www.washingtonpost.com. March 7, 1999.

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• We each need to make peace with our own memories. We have all done things that make us flinch.

  Surya Das

  Memories, Needs, Done

  Lama Surya Das (2010). “Awakening To The Sacred”, p.104, Random House

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• We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us.

  David Seamands

  Memories, Moving, Past

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• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

  Diane Ackerman

  Love, Summer, Beach

  "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1990.

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• Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Wander, Our Lives

  1927 A' la recherche du temps perdu,'LeTemps retrouve '.

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• Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few of your memories come to you genuinely virgin.

  George Orwell

  Memories, Past, Years

  1940 Inside theWhale,'My Country Right or Left'.

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• Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

  Joseph Conrad

  Memories, Humility, Vanity

  Joseph Conrad (2005). “Selected Works of Joseph Conrad”, p.225, Wordsworth Editions

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• What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Children, Memories, Childhood

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• Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Memories, Healing

  "Healing by Degrees" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2014.

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• Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Love, Life, Birthday

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• Memory itself is an internal rumour.

  George Santayana

  Memories, Moments, Rumours

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.375, 谷月社

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• The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Memories, Please

  Michel de Montaigne, Roger Ariew (1987). “Apology for Raymond Sebond”, p.56, Hackett Publishing

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• We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

  Georges Duhamel

  Missing You, Memories, Good Life

  Georges Duhamel (1919). “The Heart's Domain”

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• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

  Diane Ackerman

  Summer, Nature, Memories

  "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1990.

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