Quotes About Recollection

Our thinking is entirely made up of our memory. All life is a video or audio cassette, it is an audiobook of biography of life experience.

Develop a long-term memory: return to the senses. Sight, touch, taste, hearing and smell. Use as many as you can to remember something, don't rely on just one sense.

Finally, what good is reincarnation if you can't remember all your past lives?

Meditation is the greatest investment when it comes to long-term memory.

The mother of all the skills is to learn the art of paying attention—Remembering every step you make or anything that's around you.

You can easily remember the effect but forget the main cause behind it.

Llueve tanto como el día que nos conocimos, el noviembre pasado. Las gotas son tan gordas que caen como en cintas, ¿te acuerdas?

You've got to pay visits to your memories from time to time. You've got to feed them, take them out and air them, show them around, tell them to other people or to yourself. If you don't, they waste away.

Yet the explanation was simple. These memories had died of inanition. You've got the pay visits to your memories from time to time. You've got to feed them, take them out and air them, show them around, tell them to other people or to yourself. If you don't, they waste away.

hasn't," Kennedy reminded

Maybe she'd spoken of me to him but I was positive my grandmother had never mentioned tall-dark-and-snooty. I'd have remembered.

Those who receive the most images into their memories have the most lively imaginations.

When people talk of the indelibility of a strong memory, they speak of recalling exactly where they were when Kennedy was shot or the Challenger space shuttle exploded. But what a woman really remembers is her first period; now there's a memory seared into the brain with the blowtorch of high emotion.

Begin with "I remember." Write lots of small memories. If you fall into one large memory, write that. Just keep going. Don't be concerned if the memory happened five seconds ago or five years ago.

Of course, we're made up of what we've forgotten too, what we've tried to bury or suppress.

You will find that your taste buds have a memory of about 3 weeks.

I bet you think fellas are the ones to remember a girl -- don't you?" He shook his head hurriedly, that he'd always thought that. "Fellas have all the fun 'n she just sees one right after another, so it seems like HE'D remember her, better 'n SHE'D remember him, only it works the other way around. I ain't forgot one single fella, all these years. But I bet there ain't TWO 'd know me from a big of bananas this minute.

Nobody who's lived an anyway decent amount of life remembers everything.

Non ricordo in che libro fosse. Ma ora è in questo

Basically I've just really been trusting in the process here. I want it to work. I want to change and I actually have hope that it might be possible. A lot of this is due to some of the more intense alternative therapies they offer here, like Somatic Experiencing. Through these sessions I've been able to recall events from my childhood that I had completely suppressed from my memory.

Who knows their own story? Certainly it makes no sense when we are living in the midst of it. It's all just clamor and confusion. It only becomes a story when we tell it and retell it. Our small precious recollections that we speak again and again to ourselves and to others, first creating the narrative of our lives and then keeping the story from dissolving into darkness.

Hild had forgotten. She was twelve years old.

Bower found that unhappy people recalled details of a sad story better than those who were happy when they read it.

To love was to regain the capacity to remember a world without names, to recall by virtue of the whorl above the beloved's knucklebones and to blue of the veins beneath the skin the unbearable fragility of mornings in this counrty, to find October odors trapped in the skinfolds between her toes along with the scent of talcum powder and soap and human sweat.