Our Memories Quotes - Page 2

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

  Rosa Parks

  Memories, Deeds, Our Lives

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

  Cynthia Ozick

  Children, Memories, Childhood

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear is yours, and yours alone, like your voice, or your fingers, or your memory, and therefore yours to control. If you feel powerless over your fear, you have not yet admitted that it is yours, to do with as you will.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Memories, Power, Voice

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2002). “The Ages of Chaos”, p.38, Penguin

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• Be a collector of good ideas, but don't trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal.

  Jim Rohn

  Memories, Ideas, Information

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 26, 2014

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• we are nothing more than the sum of our memories and experiences

  Michael Scott

  Memories

  Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.550, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Truth comes home to the mind so
  naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more
  than recall it to our memory.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Motivational, Memories, Home

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• Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has a cellar and a garret, nooks and corridors, our memories have refuges that are all the more clearly delineated. All our lives we come back to them in our daydreams. A psychoanalyst should, therefore, turn his attention to this simple localization of our memories. I should like to give the name of topoanalysis to this auxiliary of pyschoanalysis. Topoanalysis, then would be the systematic psychological study of the sites of our intimate lives.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Memories, Simple, Names

  Gaston Bachelard (2014). “The Poetics of Space”, p.35, Penguin

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• Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done by feel. It's one area of my writing that I think I've got surer at as I've evolved. In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.

  Graham Swift

  Memories, Writing, Emotional

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• We are our memories," Dodge said. "That's all we are. That's what makes us the person we are. The sum of all our memories from the day we were born. If you took a person and replaced his set of memories with another set, he'd be a different person. He'd think, act, and feel things differently.

  Brian Falkner

  Memories, Thinking, Different

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• We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Memories, Leica

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• Our memories make us... even the darkest of them all.

  Nalini Singh

  Memories

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