Quotes About Memory

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

I can remember something that happened three years ago but not five minutes ago.

Everyone has photographic memory; some just don't have the film.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

We get so concerned about finding the right picture, the right frame, that...we don't get the right memory.

In every girls life there is a boy shell never forget and a summer where it all started.

Life is not what you see, but what you've projected. It's not what you've felt, but what you've decided. It's not what you've experienced, but how you've remembered it. It's not what you've forged, but what you've allowed. And it's not who's appeared, but who you've summoned. And this should serve you well, beloved, until you find, what you already have.

The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

That it shall never come again is what makes life so sweet.

A kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.

Sometimes I feel like a Stepping Stone... I am that kind, young lady that offers a wanderer food 'n drink off to the side of the road -- in the middle of nowhere as they journey into the next phase of their life. I am that kind, young lady that will change a stranger's life forever, and be a burned out memory in the back of their mind... I was that lady with the sad green eyes, the kind smile... The one that offered you a helping hand and good conversation while you ate your food.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

True unconditional love tears through the fragile fabric of mortality. Life can come and go as quick as the wind, but love survives the test of time. A heart full of love will always be remembered.

Our lifetime is short and limited, but the ideas, actions and thoughts we produce can easily remain unlimited.

Every second that you live you are never going to get back. You are never going to get to change what you said, didn't say, did, or didn't do. Live how you want to live. Act how you want to be remembered, because you never know how long or short you are going to be here.

It's funny how when you're a kid a day can last forever, and now all these years seem to pass like a blink of the eye.

The more difficult it is to reach your destination, the more you will remember the journey...

What Takes Us to the PAST is the MEMORY.... What takes Us to the FUTURE is DREAM......