- “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
- The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories. Og Mandino
- What we remember is probably fiction anyway. Beryl Bainbridge
- The saddest part of life is when the person who gave you the best memories becomes the memory. Unknown
- “Newly married, Justin and I evacuated the woods where we had once lived as nomads. We would no longer pass sweet breezy days in our sleek tent, in mossy hills and sun, showering in waterfalls. That era was now our memory, a shared dream.” ― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir
- “Nothing could persuade me that “in the image of God” applied only to man. In fact it seemed to me that the high mountains, the rivers, lakes, trees, flowers and animals far better exemplified the essence of God than men with their ridiculous clothes, their meanness, vanity, mendacity, and abhorrent egotism -” ― C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
- All that is left will be memories, and eventually they, too, will vanish like dust. Haruki Murakami
- “As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- “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
- Memories are not fixed or frozen but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection. Oliver Sacks
- “I know he wasn’t perfect…But he did the best impression of it I’ve ever seen.” ― Ranata Suzuki
- “He was both everything I could ever want…And nothing I could ever have…” ― Ranata Suzuki
- Like words, memories never really succeed in “catching” reality. Alan Watts (The Wisdom of Insecurity, Amazon book)