Quotes About Memories

Tirámos fotografias desse tempo em que os filhos de um e de outro com respectivas proles estiveram reunidos em férias na Itália. Fotografias que agora preenchem vazios.

Do You know what ghosts are, Stuey? I'll tell you. They're secrets haunting the memories of the living. So long as we carry their secrets, they refuse to leave. They wait." "Wait for what?" "To be forgotten. My father has been gone for sixty years, but" — he tapped the side of his head — "he's still here. He never left.

there are no haunted houses...only haunted people

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future. It's depressing if you spend too much time reliving old joys. You think you'll never have anything as good again.

A year from now, you won't remember why you stayed home, but you never forget a motorcycle trip.

En otras ocasiones ella hacía con sus relatos planes para el futuro: «Un día iré contigo a ese restaurante; a esa costa viajaremos juntos la próxima vez». Ahora callaba. Intentó conmoverla con recuerdos comunes, pero tampoco respondió a ellos. Las antiguas bromas, que siempre la hacían reír, la dejaron impertérrita. ¡No quería seguir los juegos tácitamente acordados!

We did not collect many souvenirs, for our own skin was the best souvenir we could think of that day.34 Signaller Ron Buckell, 1st Canadian Artillery Brigade, CEF

As a girl she had washed her handkerchiefs in the river; or perhaps she had washed the river in her handkerchiefs, because finally the water ran fragrant, sweetened by the beauty on its banks, which was how it

Cooper's tremendous love and energy and unchained freedom had captured life itself. Now, as the last shovelful covered him forever, I knew I would always carry a big piece of Cooper Half Malamute with me until I too was covered by the earth.

Fight it, and the bad memories will consume you, like all diseases. I have seen it happen . .

Those old songs certainly brought back memories. Why did the past always seem so much brighter than the present? Because he had been more innocent then?

Losing a friend is a terrible thing, the memories it shakes loose, even if you've drifted apart. The panicky feeling that you're losing bits of yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson, sung by Bryn Terfel: Now when day dawns on the brow of the moorland, Lone stands the house, and the chimney-stone is cold. Lone let it stand, now the friends are all departed, The kind hearts, the true hearts, that loved the place of old.

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The need to turn off like this for a while was vital, but so was the ability to snap back into action quickly. Fortunately, his mobile didn't ring, and he was able to finish listening to Romance oubliée and lose himself in sun-dappled memories of Emily Hargreaves and the golden days of his lost youth.

Being with his father was like watching somebody drown.

Either childhood is a lot more painful the second time around, or it's just less bearable. None of us are as strong or as brave as the children we used to be.

Our lives may take place over decades. But they're made of one long string of present moments like these. Of course, not all of these moments are this memorable, nor do they have to be. But they're all equally real. You're having a present moment right now. Now you're having another one.

Observe the things your mind is telling you, without immediately obeying its commands or spending time arguing with it. ?Recognize when your mind is viewing the world as a darker, scarier place than it really is. ?Stop confusing the memories attached to your household items with the items themselves. ?Stop envisioning catastrophe in your future. ?Celebrate your successes rather than focusing on your shortcomings.

A gift should be something freely given that enhances your life and reminds you lovingly of the giver. If it's not, you simply should not give it a place in your home.

We tend to connect our memories of the important moments in our lives, the places where we lived, and the people we loved to objects. Seeing these things allows us to replay and refresh those memories.

There are a few downsides to attaching memories to possessions. Often people feel that if they part with an object, they'll lose the memory attached to it, along with a special moment in their life. Or that a person now only living on in their memory would be forgotten completely and disappear forever.

Our homes become like photo albums of the past. But these "photos" aren't images that take up little space in a photo album or zero physical space on a computer. They're items of furniture and wood carvings and cars and blankets and clothes. These memory objects can take up lots of room in your home. This is space you can't fill with useful, functional items or new memory-associated items.

it occurred to me that if others have so often made your life their business--made your life into a question, really, and made that question their business-- then perhaps you will want to guard the memory of those times when you were freer to imagine yourself as the only times that are truly and inviolably your own.