- Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. Cicero
- Memories are not fixed or frozen but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection. Oliver Sacks
- “My dream is to create something so beautiful that it encourages people to present the best version of themselves to me everywhere I go.” ― Ross Caligiuri
- “I miss that feeling of connection.Knowing he was out there somewhere thinking about me at the same time I was thinking about him.” ― Ranata Suzuki
- “Your actions show what you know, and your replies to obstacles give clarity into what you will learn.” ― Grace Sara, Awakening in the 21st Century: Considering Existence
- Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. Michel de Montaigne
- “Sometimes I dream that I’m writing a memoir. A memoir would just be the thing to keep me in the hearts and memories of my adoring public.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
- “If you’re searching for a quote that puts your feelings into words – you won’t find it.You can learn every language and read every word ever written – but you’ll never find what’s in your heart.How can you?He has it.” ― Ranata Suzuki
- “The tangible and factual components of reality along with the intangible strands of memory and imagination constitute the framework that houses our vital life force. A person is likewise composed of contradictory and complementary forces of pain and pleasure, darkness and lightness, and clashing and harmonizing bands of thoughts and feelings. The web and root of all persons consists of both the expressible and the unsayable. Who has not held imaginary conversations with gods, devils, and spirits? Persons whom enthusiastically cultivate an inner life, ardently experience the quick of nature, and willingly immerse themselves in all aspects of everyday living will experience renewal. Analogous to the heat source of fire, we need the spark of desire to fuel our hearts and the spirit of the breeze to spread our heart songs.” ― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
- “I know he wasn’t perfect…But he did the best impression of it I’ve ever seen.” ― Ranata Suzuki
- “…what happens when you returnand find nothingbut a hollowed shell,shingles and floor,walls and echoesand the light that lead you herehas now burned outand the ones who built ithave traveled afarand you cant go to them,no matter what shoes you wear.” ― Kellie Elmore, Magic in the Backyard
- How quickly things disappear: in the universe the bodies themselves, but in time the memory of them. Marcus Aurelius
- “There are memories that time does not erase… Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
- “Do you think that every time we meet a person we should treat it like it was the last time we ever were going to see them?” ― Rutu Modan, Exit Wounds
- “Funny thing,” he said sitting in Zeke’s kitchen with his wife, “things dat happened long time uhgo used to seem way off, but now it all seems lak it wuz yistiddy. You think it’s dead but de past ain’t stopped breathin’ yet.” ― Zora Neale Hurston, Jonah’s Gourd Vine
- “Jealousy, and attempting to match others in life and stride, is self-abandonment.” ― Grace Sara, Awakening in the 21st Century: Surviving a Spiritually Dormant Society
- “The information. Every bit that of information that was ever in your brain. But the information is not the mind Jenna. That we’ve never accomplished before. What we’ve done with you is groundbreaking. We cracked the code. The mind is an energy that the brain produces. Think of a glass ball twirling on your fingertip. If it falls, it shatters into a million pieces. All the parts of a ball are still there, but it will never twirl with that force on your fingertip again. The brain is the same way.” ― Mary E. Pearson, The Adoration of Jenna Fox
- Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. Corrie ten Boom
- “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
- “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
- “A Hard Life With MemoryI’m a poor audience for my memory.She wants me to attend her voice nonstop,but I fidget, fuss,listen and don’t,step out, come back, then leave again.She wants all my time and attention.She’s got no problem when I sleep.The day’s a different matter, which upsets her.She thrusts old letters, snapshots at me eagerly,stirs up events both important and un-,turns my eyes to overlooked views,peoples them with my dead.In her stories I’m always younger.Which is nice, but why always the same story.Every mirror holds different news for me.She gets angry when I shrug my shoulders.And takes revenge by hauling out old errors,weighty, but easily forgotten.Looks into my eyes, checks my reaction.Then comforts me, it could be worse.She wants me to live only for her and with her.Ideally in a dark, locked room,but my plans still feature today’s sun,clouds in progress, ongoing roads.At times I get fed up with her.I suggest a separation. From now to eternity.Then she smiles at me with pity,since she knows it would be the end of me too.” ― Wisława Szymborska, Here
- “She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she could be dead because she had tried to save the man she loved.” ― Grace Willows
- “You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.” ― Grace Willows, To Kiss a King
- “Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about everyday, too many new things we have to learn. But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.” ― haruki murakami, Kafka on the Shore
- The past is a nice place to visit, but not the right place to stay. Paulo Coelho
- “I miss that feeling of connection.Knowing he was out there somewhere thinking about me at the same time I was thinking about him.” ― Ranata Suzuki
- “Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever.” ― Michael Poeltl
- “You were the ocean and we were the land You lay down unflinching You lay down forgetting And you were the ocean and we were the land” ― Tamara Rendell, Mystical Tides
- “What is knows is this: there is no past, there is no “what happened”, there is only the moment that unfolds into the next, dragging everything with it, constantly renewing. Everything is happening at once.” ― Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King
- “Oh, but once my memories had pulsed with the blood-heat of life. In desperation, I forced myself to recall that once, I had walked with kings and conversed in languages never heard in this land. Once I had stood at the prow of a Sea Wolf ship and sailed oceans unknown to seamen here. I had ridden horses through desert lands, and dined on exotic foods in Arab tents. I had roamed Constantinople’s fabled streets, and bowed before the Holy Roman Emperor’s throne. I had been a slave, a spy, a sailor. Advisor and confidant of lords, I had served Arabs, Byzantines, and barbarians. I had worn captive’s rags, and the silken robes of a Sarazen prince. Once I had held a jeweled knife and taken a life with my own hand. Yes, and once I had held a loving woman in my arms and kissed her warm and willing lips…Death would have been far, far better than the gnawing, aching emptiness that was now my life.” ― Stephen R. Lawhead, Byzantium