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Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature. -- Sadie Jones
Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind. -- Lionel Hampton
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary. -- Maurice Baring
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved. -- Thomas Fuller
Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart. -- Thomas Fuller
The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory. -- Giacomo Casanova
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect. -- Alex Grey
Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics. -- Steven Pinker
The two places that I had most imprinted in my mind and in my memory were UCLA and Indiana. To play at one and coach at the other is unbelievable. -- Steve Alford
I volunteered at a homeless shelter in preparation for 'Being Flynn,' and when I'm walking along the Bowery, that's the first thing that comes to mind. That's a nice memory. -- Paul Dano
To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history. -- Eckhart Tolle
I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them. -- Earl Hines
It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials. Hackers pose another very real problem whereby an election could be tilted towards a favored candidate. -- Bob Barr
One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it with images of whatever it is you want to remember. -- Joshua Foer
In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold. -- John Leonard
I really cherish the memories I have of my trips. For some reason, when you travel, it's like your mind picks up on the fact that this is something uncharacteristic, so it tunes in more acutely and remembers better. -- Jennette McCurdy
People don't remember me for how high my legs went, even though they went up very high, and how many pirouettes I did. They don't remember me for that. They remember me and any other dancer because something touched them inside. It's an indelible memory on the heart and in the mind. -- Judith Jamison
Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called eidetic memory, which occurs in between 2 and 15 percent of children and very rarely in adults. An eidetic image is essentially a vivid afterimage that lingers in the mind's eye for up to a few minutes before fading away. -- Joshua Foer
Mind mapping is a technique based on memory and creativity and comprehension and understanding, so when the student or a child uses the mind map, they are using their brain in the way their brain was designed to be used, and so the mind helps them in all learning and cognitive skills. It simply helps them in what the brain does naturally. -- Tony Buzan
Mind is memory, not intelligence. -- Rajneesh
I had a probing mind and an elephant memory. -- Ethel Waters
The mind must be trained, rather than the memory. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Short term memory makes no difference if you've lost your mind. -- Ellis
Muscle has memory: the body knows things the mind will not admit. -- Louise Doughty
Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization. -- Samuel Reshevsky
By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind. -- Edward T. Hall
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail. -- Ben Jonson
Put it out of your mind. In no time, it will be a forgotten memory. -- Samuel Goldwyn
The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature. -- John Henry Newman
Hindsight is a beautiful thing, mage. The past is for the memory, the present is for the mind. -- Ben Galley
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies. -- Charles Caleb Colton
The mind forgets, but the heart will always remember. And what is the heart's memory but love itself? -- Tan Twan Eng
Yoga is a study of life, study of your body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, and ego. Study of your inner faculties! -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The mind has a complex life that can seem quite autonomous - dreams, obsessions, unwilled memory are all instances of this. -- Marilynne Robinson
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. -- Eckhart Tolle
Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time that allows us to link the mind with the world. -- Daniel Schacter
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain -- William Shakespeare
Healing is the process of reestablishing the integration between body, mind, and spirit, creating opportunities for the return of the memory of wholeness. -- David Simon
People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind. -- Eckhart Tolle
I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things. -- Edgar Allan Poe
As she ran, a memory uncurled in her mind and spread out before her and it felt like she was running into the memory. -- J.C. Morrows
Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and kicking over the furniture. -- Terry Pratchett
Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory. -- Honore de Balzac
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
It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss. -- Mark Twain
Sometimes the bridges you burn light the way out of your darkness, but the memory of the blaze will be burned into your heart and mind forever. -- Shannon L. Alder
There is no mysterious essence we can call a 'place'. Place is change. It is motion killed by the mind, and preserved in the amber of memory. -- J. A. Baker
Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine. -- Plato
Some of your childhood traumas may be remembered with incredible clarity, while others are so frightening or incomprehensible that your conscious mind buries the memory in your unconscious. -- Renee Fredrickson
An important memory is like a gravitational field--the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon; it lives in light and shadow. -- Rikki Ducornet
You are not your body; you are not your brain, not even your mind. You are Spirit. All you have to do is reawaken to the memory, to remember. -- Brian Weiss
Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them. -- Gary Ryan Blair
A disease-free body, quiver-free breath, stress-free mind, inhibition-free intellect, obsession-free memory, ego that includes all, and soul which is free from sorrow is the birthright of every human being. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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