Past Memories Quotes

• Favorite People, Favorite Places,
  Favorite Memories of the past ...
  These are the joys of a lifetime
  Those are the things that last

  Henry Van Dyke

  Photography, Memories, Past

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• Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

  Sophia Loren

  Helping, Persons, Sophia

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Memories, Past, Keys

  Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.31, Chosen Books

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  Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Broken Heart, Forgiveness, Heartbroken

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

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• I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

  Sophia Loren

  Inspiring, Memories, Block

  "Valentines & Vitriol". Book by Rex Reed, 1977.

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• It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past.

  George Sand

  Memories, Past, Extraordinary

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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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• I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.

  David Gerrold

  Love, Dream, Memories

  David Gerrold (2014). “A Covenant of Justice: Trackers, Book Two”, p.98, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

  Susan Sontag

  Memories, Past, Touching

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• Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Inspirational, Memories, Past

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• If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

  Jane Austen

  Memories, Past, Thinking

  Jane Austen (2013). “Mansfield Park”, p.172, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

  Bruce Lee

  Memories, Past, Treasure

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• May today be filled
  With bright hopes for the future
  And happy memories of the past

  John Walter Bratton

  Anniversary, Memories, Past

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• To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America; with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Memories, Inspiration

  YouTube Chanel "freedogshampoo"/ "Disneyland Opening Day - Part 2", www.youtube.com. April 17, 2007.

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• He owned a whole world full of memories, of lovely moments relived and happy recollections. I'm not saying he was happy or that he didn't suffer. He suffered very much, but he did not despair; he still drew nourishment from what he had been given. But the sadness never left him. Happiness needs more than memories of the past to feed on; it also needs dreams of the future.

  Jorge Amado

  Dream, Memories, Sadness

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• If you think the memories of the past too much, you will miss creating the new ones!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Memories, Past, Thinking

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• Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

  Philip Roth

  Memories, Past, Facts

  Philip Roth (1989). “The facts: a novelist's autobiography”, Vintage

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• The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and, when we who live in the present touch them, they are suddenly stretched taut and then they propel us into the future.

  Yukio Mishima

  Strong, Memories, Spring

  Yukio Mishima (1959). “The temple of the golden pavilion”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that it can entice... or terrify, all depending upon how we conduct ourselves today.

  Jim Davis

  Memories, Powerful, Past

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• If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Memories, Past

  "A Big Heart Open to God: An interview with Pope Francis". Interview with Antonio Spadaro, S.J., www.americamagazine.org. September 30, 2013.

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• I'd rather do something than read about it." "That's fine, but if you do it, and then can't think what it means, it's never much of a memory. Life has more to so with memories of the past and longings for the future than it ever does with *right now*." -pg 138-9

  Dean Hughes

  Memories, Mean, Past

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• The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. There is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Memories, Eye, Heart

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.73, Random House

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• You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

  Pope Francis

  Memories, Past, Church

  "The Pope: how the Church will change". Interview with Eugenio Scalfari, www.repubblica.it. October 1, 2013.

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• Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man’s life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past?

  Marianne Curley

  Children, Memories, Past

  Marianne Curley (2012). “Old Magic”, p.2, A&C Black

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• Dreams are composed of many things, my son. Of images and hopes, of fears and memories. Memories of the past, and memories of the future.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Memories, Son

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