Quotes About Memory

When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact.

Could the motive be nothing more than simple self-preservation? When you lose the instinct yourself, it's hard to remember how powerful it is for everyone else. He felt himself starting to smile.

She wished she had better words. Ones that somehow bound up all he'd been to her. All the things felt but never said. All the holes he'd leave behind. But how can you fit all that in a bit of breath? 'By

En la guerra y cuando el combate acaba, si sigues con vida, te pones a cavar. A cavar las tumbas de los camaradas muertos. Se merecen esa postrer muestra de respeto, aunque tal vez no se lo tuvieras en vida. Cavas todo lo hondo que te apetezca, luego los tiras dentro, les echas un poco de tierra encima, ellos se pudren y tú los olvidas. Siempre se ha hecho así.

The past isn't made of facts, not really, just stories people tell to make themselves feel better. To make themselves look better.

They don't see that you can't have a future without a past.

Î?i aminte?ti de mor?i cât po?i mai bine. Roste?ti câteva cuvinte pentru ei. Apoi mergi mai departe ?i speri la ceva mai bun.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

And we who loved the world must learn the language of absence: days foreshortened, empty rooms, the irrevocable distance between the goodbye and the letting go.

And if poetry is a bond between Two hearts, it is a bond too frail: That night words failed, I, too, was lost— To whiskey, memory, a photograph.

I remember a little girl who had a white rabbit coat and hat and muff. Actually, I don't remember the little girl. I remember the coat and the hat and the muff.

When you think from your past memories, you can only create past experiences.

your familiar memories related to your known world "re-mind" you to reproduce the same experiences.

Emotions are the chemical consequences (or feedback) of past experiences.

There are genes for an unlimited genius mind, for longevity, for immortality, for an uncompromising will, for the capacity to heal, for having mystical experiences, for regenerating tissues and organs, for activating the hormones of youth so you have greater energy and vitality, for photographic memory, and for doing the uncommon, just to name a few.

automatically romance their past, feeling the same way every day.

In fact, scientific experiments have shown that you don't see reality as it truly is. Instead, you unconsciously fill in your reality based on your memories of the past, which is what's neurochemically maintained in your brain.2 When perceptions become implicit or nondeclarative (as was discussed in the last chapter), they become automatic or subconscious so that you automatically edit reality subjectively.

Familiar Memories "Re-mind" Us to Reproduce the Same Experiences

That event—where something outside of you changes something inside of you—is called an associative memory. If we keep repeating the process over and over again, by association the outer stimulus can become so strong or reinforced that we can replace the aspirin for a sugar pill that looks like an aspirin, and it will produce an automatic inner response (lessening the pain of the headache). That's one way the placebo works.

We may also train the body to be the mind in order to live in a predictable future, based on the memory of the known past—and thus we miss the precious "now" moment again.

Most people spend the majority of their time preoccupied with negative thoughts and feelings. Is it likely that most of the things that are happening in our present circumstances are negative? Obviously not. Negativity runs so high because we are either living in anticipation of stress or re-experiencing it through a memory, so most of our thoughts and feelings are driven by those strong hormones of stress and survival.

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