- “There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “You will know that this life is not just about you but about all the people who have touched your life.” ― Darice Cairns, The Art of Finding Truth: One Man’s Journey Through Love, Life, Grief and Joy
- The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be; otherwise, you will be forced to relive the past again and again. Eckhart Tolle
- Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end. Paulo Coelho
- Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. Corrie ten Boom
- “The easiest way to leave the past behind is to remember that love does not live in the past, only memories — love lives in the present.” ― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
- “I had someone once who made every day mean something.And now…. I am lost….And nothing means anything anymore.” ― Ranata Suzuki
- “I looked at them all. ‘You can’t spend your life up here.'””The moment I said it I remembered Alan saying tat in a way he HAD spent his life up here, That his memories of the Moon were so bright and vivid that the things he did on Earth seemed grey by comparison. And I thought how completely cosmic it would be if I could fix that for them. If I could make it so that part of them was always up here. So that when they were back on Earth and their dads were yelling and pushing them on, they could just tune out and come back up here, where — in their brightest memories — they would always be kids.” ― Frank Cottrell Boyce, Cosmic
- “Growing up, I always had a soldier mentality. As a kid I wanted to be a soldier, a fighter pilot, a covert agent, professions that require a great deal of bravery and risk and putting oneself in grave danger in order to complete the mission. Even though I did not become all those things, and unless my predisposition, in its youngest years, already had me leaning towards them, the interest that was there still shaped my philosophies. To this day I honor risk and sacrifice for the good of others – my views on life and love are heavily influenced by this.” ― Criss Jami, Healology
- “You want it or not but with time, memories are going to fade. Wounds will be healed and life will give you plenty opportunities to be happy.” ― Nitya Prakash
- “And all this aching memories of you are floating through my burning veins;letting my scars glow in a dark bluereflecting the colour of your weary eyes.” ― Laura Chouette
- “He would always be around you, not in these words or paintings, but in your heart. He will always be in happy memories. You can’t cage his worth in few pages and colors.” ― Vidushi Gupta, The Unending Maze: Because Finding Your Way Out Has Never Been More Difficult
- Memory is the diary we all carry about with us. Oscar Wilde
- “If life is a question, love is the answer.” ― Giovannie de Sadeleer
- Time’s the thief of memory. Stephen King
- “Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history.” ― norman doidge, The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
- “He thinks perhaps there’s a reason our memories are kept hazy and out of focus. Maybe their abstraction serves as an anesthetic, a buffer protecting us from the agony of time and all that it steals and erases.” ― Blake Crouch, Recursion
- “I think of you when upon the sea the sun flings her beams.I think of you when the moonlight shines in silvery streams.I see you when upon the distant hills the dust awakes;At night when on a fragile bridge the traveler quakes.I hear you when the billows rise on high,With murmur deep.To tread the silent grove where wander I,When all’s asleep.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever.” ― Michael Poeltl
- It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over. Paulo Coelho
- “It’s time of the year when life slows down. It’s time for slow guitars and symphonies. It’s time you sit on the old wooden chair and bask in the old memories.” ― Nitya Prakash
- “Every quote, every book, every film seemed to suggest that ‘one day’ someone would come into my life and love me with an intensity and a passion I had never experienced before. And to their credit they were right; It all came and went so fast it really did feel as if it were just ‘one day’….” ― Ranata Suzuki
- All memories are trivia. Kathy Acker
- “Only In SleepOnly in sleep I see their faces,Children I played with when I was a child,Louise comes back with her brown hair braided,Annie with ringlets warm and wild.Only in sleep Time is forgotten –What may have come to them, who can know?Yet we played last night as long ago,And the doll-house stood at the turn of the stair.The years had not sharpened their smooth round faces,I met their eyes and found them mild –Do they, too, dream of me, I wonder,And for them am I too a child?” ― Sara Teasdale, Flame and Shadow
- Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it. Stevie Wonder
- “Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony white finger would emerge from a cloud and point to you, while a chilling voice thundered, “We *told* you not to tell.” But that was then. Just put down on paper everything you can remember now about your parents and siblings and relatives and neighbors, and we will deal with libel later on.” ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
- Visit your soul, not your past. Paulo Coelho
- “The last time I felt alive – I was looking into your eyes.Breathing your air…. touching your skin…… Saying goodbye….The last time I felt alive…. I was dying.” ― Ranata Suzuki
- “I’ve apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It’s been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I’ve found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn’t mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I’ve just added more things to my list. Like for example, I’m still beyond obsessed with the winter season and I still start putting up strings of lights in September. I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers. But some new things I’ve fallen in love with — mismatched everything. Mismatched chairs, mismatched colors, mismatched personalities. I love spraying perfumes I used to wear when I was in high school. It brings me back to the days of trying to get a close parking spot at school, trying to get noticed by soccer players, and trying to figure out how to avoid doing or saying anything uncool, and wishing every minute of every day that one day maybe I’d get a chance to win a Grammy. Or something crazy and out of reach like that. 😉 I love old buildings with the paint chipping off the walls and my dad’s stories about college. I love the freedom of living alone, but I also love things that make me feel seven again. Back then naivety was the norm and skepticism was a foreign language, and I just think every once in a while you need fries and a chocolate milkshake and your mom. I love picking up a cookbook and closing my eyes and opening it to a random page, then attempting to make that recipe. I’ve loved my fans from the very first day, but they’ve said things and done things recently that make me feel like they’re my friends — more now than ever before. I’ll never go a day without thinking about our memories together.” ― Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift
- “Treasure of time is tales of the moment transformed into memories.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita