“A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we’re married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again.” ― Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mistsġ9. “Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.” ― Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witchġ8. It builds us up inside it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.” ― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depressionġ7. Exercise because it’s good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don’t believe it. “When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable” ― Martin Amis, Other Peopleġ6. “Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.” ― Ann Druyanġ5. Chip away a memory at a time and you destroy him as surely as if you hammered nail after nail through his skull.”ġ4. Take a man’s memories and you take all of him. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. I’ve told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.” ― Janet Fitch, White Oleanderġ3. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain…There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory.” ― Chief Seattle, The Chief Seattle’s Speechġ2. “Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.” ― Vladimir Nabokovġ1. You can learn every language and read every word ever written – but you’ll never find what’s in your heart.ġ0. “If you’re searching for a quote that puts your feelings into words – you won’t find it. “If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard.Īnd if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart.” ― Ranata Suzukiĩ. The scenery was the last thing on my mind.” ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian WoodĨ. It was the age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me. I was thinking about the two of us together, and then about myself again. I was thinking about the beautiful girl walking next to me. I didn’t give a damn about the scenery that day. I never stopped to think of it as something that would make a lasting impression, certainly never imagined that eighteen years later I would recall it in such detail. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. “What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life–to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?” ― George Eliot, Adam Bedeħ. “In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.” ― Octavia ButlerĦ. We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.” ― Alan Wilson WattsĢ0. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. “We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. “Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker” ― Bram Stoker, Draculaġ9. “Different people remember things differently, and you’ll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Laneġ8. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”ġ7. “Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said.
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