2,914 Quotes About Memory

Although I did not call my home office the “Virtuous Scheme Laboratory” back then, I’ve used the term often over the years after hearing a guy I sometimes think of as the “Buddha of Business” named Dean Jackson use a similar phrase. Certainly, what I was doing in that office was “scheming” with the stubborn tenacity of Wile E. Coyote to find a way out of hell without sacrificing my intelligence or believing in some vapid god that couldn’t possibly exist.

If you think someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them.

If you think about someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them.

Rievocando dolci frammenti del proprio passato, Christopher rammentò il sublime sorriso di Lavinia giunger come brezza profumata nella stanza eternamente buia del suo cuore; rammentò i primi raggi di un sole tiepido rischiararne le pareti e riflettersi, lucenti, su frammenti di polvere destinati a svanir nell’oblio stesso che li aveva generati.

Lest we despair, God has given us "a future and a hope" (Jeremiah 29:11 NLT) and to be specific, it includes the restoration of every precious day of our lives. Heaven is not a memory wipe. it is the time and capacity to truly relish the story of our lives, to see the hand of God in it all (how many times angels rescued you), to be vindicated, and even rewarded.

50. A study conducted by the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2012 concluded that people who appear to be constantly distracted have more working memory and sharper brains.

Lei è irlandese, signor O'Hara. Dimenticare per lei non è possibile.""E lei è tedesco, signor Middlehoff. Per lei la memoria è sicuramente un peso.

E soprattutto sapeva che per quanto ci si perda nel presente, per quanto si creda che il passato è stato cancellato, esso ritorna. Ritorna a giudicarti. E tu giudichi lui, il passato, nel paesaggio morale della memoria.

The sound of the sea you hear in Proust, as if the whole book were a shell held to your ear, is the sound of the amniotic fluid, reminding you, across all your barriers of self-protection, that the first thing you ever heard was voices in the water.