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"The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things."
"Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory."
"They say that Hope is happiness But genuine Love must prize the past; And Mem'ry wakes the thoughts that bless: They rose first -- they set the last. And all that mem'ry loves the most Was once our only hope to be: And all that hope adored and lost Hath melted into memory. Alas! It is delusion all-- The future cheats us from afar: Nor can we be what we recall, Nor dare we think on what we are."
"...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'."
"Love is the greatest healing power I know. Love can heal even the deepest and most painful memories because love brings the light of understanding to the darkest corners of our hearts and minds."
"I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting # intuition guide my way."
"The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation."
"When you travel, you can see lots of great buildings and monuments and stuff, but the best part of traveling is meeting people as you go. Those are the people who made the places you go to anyway. All my memories of traveling - yeah, there are some buildings or landscapes that I'll always remember - but I still think I remember the people I meet more than any of that."
"There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them."
"The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower; Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower, It visits with inconstant glance Each human heart and countenance; Like hues and harmonies of evening, Like clouds in starlight widely spread, Like memory of music fled, Like aught that for its grace may be Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery."
"When you live life and you are living the experience, you tend not to appreciate them as you are living them. It's only when you look back and realize how special they were."
"The past is one evil less and one memory more."
"What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?"
"By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames."
"Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell."
"I think I had an argument with a hypnotist this morning. It makes perfect sense as I have no memory of it."
"Like many indelible family memories, carving a pumpkin begins with someone grabbing a really sharp knife."
"Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes and touches you With a thousand memories, And asks you Beautiful, unanswerable questions."
"My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience."
"For black folks, the camera provided a means to document a reality that could, if necessary, be packed, stored, moved from place to place... [Photography] offered a way to contain memories, to overcome loss, to keep history."
