Quotes About Memory

We tend to go on loving the things the people who loved us loved. They are invested with soul, even if the people are long dead, even if they do not turn out to be who you thought they were.

Women do that as they age, they lighten, become air, their souls ephemeral with memory and experience. Men become more ponderous with the passing of the years, heavy with regret.

The pain of growing old lies specifically in the fact that part of us does not grow old.

Young people err through ignorance; but older people err through oblivion to dramatic but simple truths, learned and forgotten a hundred times. The ignorance of the young has the inviting vacancy of the outdoors; but the oblivion of the old is a noxious void behind a sneer of wisdom.

People perish. Books are immortal.

People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii)

All the new thinking is about loss.In this it resembles the old thinking.The idea, for example, that each particular erasesthe luminous clarity of a general idea.

Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.

He knew that he'd known her for less than a week, but now that she was gone he was continually probing his feelings for her, the way he might probe a sore tooth with his tongue, engaging her in imaginary conversations, imagining her saying such delightful things.

The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.

Organizations that learn from their failures forgive and remember, they don't forgive and forget.

Leslie Howard.' 'Howard – yes, I remember him in The Scarlet Pimpernel. He was very good.

Nothing beats having the Word of God stored away in the chambers of the mind.

Gone. and it was completely. Everyone I'd every known, every place I'd ever been. My Mother. My father. Rebecca. Out of site. Out of mind.

Interspersed within those meditations are reflections on issues important for both a spirituality of reconciliation and strategies of reconciliation: memory, healing, forgiveness, truth, and ministry.

Reconciliation processes try to create new spaces that are safe for revisiting the experience of trauma.

the five steps of the method Reading Faster 300x: 1. Preparation 2. Preview 3. Reading 4. Review 5. Memorize

the maps are a very effective tool because it uses both hemispheres of the brain thanks to colors and keywords.

Each branch should be made in a different color, just to distinguish the arguments, while the sub-branches are of the same color of the branch from which unfold. A scheme proposed in this way allows the mind to photograph what he sees. Remember that the more memory that is mostly consistent and efficient visual.

Her abstinence from her recollections had been a matter of survival.

Some things last, she thought. Rocks, rivers, old covered bridges. And some things don't last. Hot August nights and everything they bring with them. They elude us, so we go on without them, eventually we die and there is no sign of us.

The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before.

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

This," Catherine wrote later, "is the effect that can be produced by a stupid, carelessly spoken word—it is never forgotten.