Past Memories Quotes - Page 2

• In an instant, our mind can carry us far away into memories of the past or fantasies about the future. Or we may get caught up in a race against the clock, feeling like there's never enough time. We say things like "Time is flying," "Time is running out," or "There are never enough hours in the day."

  Deepak Chopra

  Running, Memories, Past

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• That discussion can take place only in an atmosphere in which illegal immigration is a memory of the past, no longer with us, allowing us to weigh the different options available based on the new circumstances at the time.

  Donald Trump

  Memories, Past, Atmosphere

  "Donald Trump Plans to Parachute Criminals Into Other Countries Whether They Like It Or Not" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. September 1, 2016.

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• One of the main jobs of conciousness is to keep our life tied together into a coherent story, a self-concept. It does this by generating explanations of behaviors on the basis of our self image, images, memories of the past, expectations of the future, the present social situation, and the physical environment in which behavior is produced.

  Joseph E. LeDoux

  Jobs, Memories, Past

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• I do think that we're pretty future-obsessed right now, and I think that capitalism works best when we have a very short memory of the past, when we can just go forward seamlessly into a future of ever-new products and ever-new experiences - even though they're exactly the same, just on a watch instead of on a phone or whatever.

  How to Dress Well

  Memories, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Mind can never be intelligent - only no-mind is intelligent. Only no-mind is original and radical. Only no-mind is revolutionary - revolution in action. The mind gives you a sort of stupor. Burdened by the memories of the past, burdened by the projections of the future, you go on living - at the minimum. You dont live at the maximum. Your flame remains very dim. Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young. Your whole life becomes a flame, and a flame without any smoke. That is what awareness is.

  Rajneesh

  Memories, Intelligent, Past

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• The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

  Jean-Henri Fabre

  Memories, Past, Thinking

  Jean-Henri Fabre, Alexander Teixeira De Mattos (2000). “The Life of the Fly”, p.117, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

  Robert Smithson

  Memories, Past, Reality

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.156, Univ of California Press

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• How blazing and alive the past is. The color of the wallpaper in the bedroom you had as a girl. It's not so much that you've lost your memory, more like you're submerged in it, like you're living in the brightly vivid underwater world of the past.

  Jackie Kay

  Girl, Memories, Past

  Jackie Kay (2012). “Red Dust Road: Picador Classic”, p.54, Pan Macmillan

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• Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.

  William Faulkner

  Sweet, Memories, Past

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• A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.

  Bruce Barton

  Mom, Mother Daughter, Memories

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• Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

  Philip Roth

  Memories, Past, Imagination

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

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• One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memories, Past, Age

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• Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an appendix, for instance. Does he know he ought to have an appendix? He is just born with it....Our unconscious mind, like our body, is a storehouse of relics and memories of the past. A study of the structure of the unconscious collective mind would reveal the same discoveries as you make in comparative anatomy. We do not need to think that there is anything mystical about it.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Memories, Past

  "Analytical Psychology: Its Theory and Practice".

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• The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future.

  Antonio Damasio

  Memories, Past, Self

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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