Memories Quotes
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I just want to leave a positive memory of setting an example and bringing our youth with us.
Misty Copeland -
I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.
Hedy Lamarr
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We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on a voyage of their own until they are lost to sight! Then we can no longer take them into account in the total which is our personality. But they know of secret paths by which to return to us.
Marcel Proust -
Fans all have their memories of pennant races, good memories, sick memories.
George Vecsey -
History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier. History is memory; we have to remember what it is like to be a Roman, or a Jacobite or a Chartist or even - if we dare, and we should dare - a Nazi. History is not abstraction, it is the enemy of abstraction.
Stephen Fry -
To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse - that cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature.
Richard Adams -
The two of them sipped coffee and shook their heads, trapped in recursively horrible memories.
Charlie Jane Anders -
I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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A further step is to observe the interplay between your thoughts and your physical sensations. How are particular thoughts registered in your body? (Do thoughts like “My father loves me” or “my girlfriend dumped me” produce different sensations?) Becoming aware of how your body organizes particular emotions or memories opens up the possibility of releasing sensations and impulses you once blocked in order to survive.
Bessel van der Kolk -
From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
Miguel de Unamuno -
Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.
Sandra Cisneros -
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
Miguel de Unamuno -
The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.
William James -
I think my best memories are when I go home to California and I get play beach volleyball with my friends from home.
Gigi Hadid
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The lockdown brought memories of the once serene Abuja city of the early nineties. Then it was sweet, now it is disturbingly quiet. People aren’t able to fetch daily bread.May Allah forgive us our sins and ease it for us.
Sirika Hadi -
We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth, and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children's memories, the adventures we've had together in nature will always exist.
Richard Louv -
Listening to the Beatles' music figures into pretty much all of my childhood memories.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth -
What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling.
William Maxwell -
The journey through another world, beyond bad dreams beyond the memories of a murdered generation, cartographed in captivity by bare survivors makes sacristans of us all.
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn -
Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.
Joshua Foer
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Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.
Stephen Spender -
Stabilize and calm patients down, help to lay traumatic memories and reenactments to rest, and reconnect patients with their fellow men and women.
Bessel van der Kolk -
Most of us have very clear memories of the self-critical internal conversation running on in our heads while we were playing poorly, and yet it often seems that we hardly remember noticing it at all while we were playing well.
Barry Green -
There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have a feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well. So I take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever I can.
Nicholas Sparks