In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self. Show
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“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
“Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.”
“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
“The pleasure of remembering had
been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.”
“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
“Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.”
“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
“What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
“One of the keys to happiness is
a bad memory.”
“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe
that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”
“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”
“People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.”
“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
“But who can
remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”
“I'm like you,' he said. 'I remember everything.' I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you’re just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there’s not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an
afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name”
“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”
“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be
remembered.”
“I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes”
“The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”
“Memory is more indelible than ink.” “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
“It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.”
“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
“Katniss. I remember about the bread.”
“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”
“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to
believe it was all like that.”
“Touch has a memory.”
“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.”
Welcome back. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. How do you write a memory quote?“I believe that without memories there is no life, and that our memories should be of happy times.” “You shouldn't wait for other people to make special things happen. You have to create your own memories.” “A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together.
What are some quotes to remember?Remembrance Quotes. “It has been said, 'time heals all wounds. ... . “One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.” ... . “I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes” ... . “You must learn some of my philosophy. ... . “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”. Will make more memories quotes?Making New Memories Quotes. "Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." ... . "We don't remember days. ... . "You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. " ... . "Memories warm you up from the inside.". What is the best thing about memories?In every phase of our lives, we create memories. To quote Ama Ata Aido, it is humans, not places that make memories. We are the ones that create our own environment; the kind where relationships can flourish and bonds can be form.
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