"Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place."
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"Here, too, a brand-new day is beginning. It could be a day like all the others, or it could be a day remarkable enough in many ways to remain in the memory. In either case, for now, for most people, it is a blank sheet of paper."
"The music of memory has its own pitch,/which not everyone hears."
"I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude."
"The earth doesn’t care where death occurs. ...It’s the artist, by coming in and writing about it or painting it or taking a photograph of it, that makes the earth powerful and creates death’s memory. Because the land will not remember by itself, but the artist will."
"For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud - a rainbow... For each shadow - the sun... For each parting - sweet memories when sorrow is done."
"Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water."
"Every day I'll wear your memory like a favorite shirt upon my back"
"Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness."
"Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom."
"Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you."
"Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page. They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day. Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then. Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen."
"The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory"
"The greatest joys of life are happy memories. Your job is to create as many of them as possible."
"Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved."
"Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears."
"When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me, much, very much has been given. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good."
"Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow."
"Money can't buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories."
"Life is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show."