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Quotes About Memories

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Dintre oameni, cel mai mare este poetul, un poet liric, adica un adevarat poet. Un poet este un om care nu pastreaza in inima sa secrete pentru Dumnezeu si care, cantandu'si aleanul, nadejdile si amintirile, le curata de coaja si le limpezeste de toata minciuna. Cantarile sale sunt cantarile tale si ale mele
~ Miguel de Unamuno
Y es más triste un amor que nace y se cría sobre la tumba de otro y como una planta que se alimenta, como de mantillo, de la podredumbre de otra planta.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
Es algo que suele suceder con los muertos: lamentar no haberles dicho a tiempo cuánto los amabas, lo necesarios que te eran. Cuando alguien imprescindible se va de tu lado, vuelves los ojos a tu interior y no encuentras más que banalidad, porque los vivos, comparados con los muertos, resultamos insoportablemente banales.
~ Miguel Delibes
Eu estarei vivo e, vivendo, não deixarei morrer quem caminhou comigo, ao longo do caminho.
~ Unknown
And once again I believe that nothing that's important really becomes lost. We just delude ourselves, thinking that we own the things, the moments and the others. Still with me are all the dead persons who I loved, all the friends who turned away, all the happy days that faded. I lost nothing but the illusion that everything could be mine forever.
~ Unknown
Também se pode amar o que não se possui, também se pode servir o que deixou de ser nosso. O destino dos povos não é o de terem Impérios, mas o de terem memórias.
~ Unknown
We create ourselves by how we invest this energy. Memories, thoughts, and feelings are all shaped by how we use it. And it is an energy under our control, to do with as we please; hence, attention is our most important tool in the task of improving the quality of experience.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Many people give up on learning after they leave school because thirteen or twenty years of extrinsically motivated education is still a source of unpleasant memories.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we use this energy. Memories, thoughts and feelings are all shaped by how use it. And it is an energy under control, to do with as we please; hence attention is our most important tool in the task of improving the quality of experience.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
With the approach of age the soul flies like a bird back to the days of childhood. Now those days shine bright and clear in my memory until it seems as if everything then must have been better, lovelier than in the world of today. In this rich and poor do not differ, for there is surely none so destitute but his childhood shows some glint of happiness when he remembers it in age.
~ Mika Waltari
No hay ciertamente nadie, por pobre que sea, cuya infancia no encierre algún destello de júbilo y de luz al evocarla en sus viejos días
~ Mika Waltari
who rightly values happiness and friendship before they're gone?
~ Mika Waltari
ONE BY ONE I HAD WATCHED THEM ALL DIE.
~ Unknown
Joyful people are participants. They don't miss the moments. They turn moments into memories.
~ Unknown
The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you.
~ Mike Dolan
You shouldn't be thinking of losing each-other at all. Don't let that loom over your happiness right now. Enjoy that easy silence with him. It is rare what you've got. But, when the time does come... it will be hard every day and it won't get easier. But... eventually, after some time, you'll find little moments, little pieces of life that remind you of him... and you'll hold them tight. It'll be like he's here with you, even though he's gone.
~ Mike Flanagan
youth wasn't like the skin of a snake that you sloughed off and never saw again but rather a feeling that you tuck away because you think you don't need it any more and it's only when you come across it by accident that you realise just how much fun it really is
~ Mike Gayle
sometimes love is more of a decision than it is a feeling. Sometimes you just have to choose to remember the good times and forget the rest.' 25 Every word Tom Walking home in the sunshine of the late afternoon, I felt curiously both drained and elated as I went over the events of the past few weeks, trying to make sense of them.
~ Mike Gayle
I wanted to put as much love and care into the taking apart of my wonderful mum's home as had been poured into bringing it all together in the first place?
~ Mike Gayle
You see, the broccoli was yours and I give it back to you. The remote control is yours but I used to use it most and so now I give it back to you. The wardrobe should've been yours on that day we argued in Ikea, so I give it to you now. And finally this ring, in your hand, which represents my heart, is, was, and will always be yours. Even if you turn me down, I can't ever take it back because it's yours forever.
~ Mike Gayle