Memories Quotes - Page 5

• Every time I am looking into the depths of somebody's brain, I'm thinking, 'This is what makes a person who they are. That structure contains memories. Everything that they've ever experienced is right in there.'

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, Brain, Depth

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• Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wish, Criminal Mind, Mental Illness

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• The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Life, Memorial

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• Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Gratitude, Being Thankful, Joy

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of what has happened and the imagining of what is to come.

  Anita Shreve

  Sweet, Kissing, Love Is

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• Every man's memory is his private literature.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Literature, Every Man

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• To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

  Margaret Barber

  Inspirational, Life, Eye

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• Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

  Aeschylus

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Mother

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• No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Honesty, Liars, Lying

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• An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

  Anatole France

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

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• No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

  Louis L'Amour

  Dozen, Association, Ends

  Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume One 5-Book Bundle: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett, Ride the River”, p.937, Bantam

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Giving, Solitude

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• I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Happiness, Inspiring, Life And Love

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• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Cheating, Funny Inspirational

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.43, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

  Antonio Porchia

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such places in our minds irresistibly. There are certain villages and towns, mountains and plains that, having seen them walked in them lived in them even for a day, we keep forever in the mind's eye. They become indispensable to our well-being; they define us, and we say, I am who I am because I have been there, or there.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Travel, Eye, Who I Am

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

  David Gerrold

  Love, Dream, Past

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

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• Memories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives and on balance, I wouldn't want to erase any of them, tempting though it may be.

  Ben Affleck

  Balance, Fabric, May

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• Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.

  Stanislas de Boufflers

  Love, Flower, Remembrance

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  It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

  P. D. James

  Life, Fall, Autumn

  P. D. James (2008). “A Taste for Death”, p.339, Faber & Faber

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• Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

  Thomas Fuller

  Heart, Mind, Leftovers

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• Let your memory be your travel bag.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Travel, Next Adventure, Bags

  "Thinking About Alexander Solzhenitsyn" by Don Meyer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.

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• Fifteen years ago tomorrow I had open heart surgery, a quintuple bypass surgery. Thanks to all of my doctors. Because of them, in 15 years of life I've been able to experience, well, acid reflux, short-term memory loss, and erectile dysfunction. Thanks for all your work. It's great to be alive.

  David Letterman

  Heart, Loss, Dysfunction

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• Memory itself is an internal rumour.

  George Santayana

  Moments, Rumours, Internals

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

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