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The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future. -- Antonio Damasio
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts. -- Philip Roth
Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Sweet is the memory of past troubles. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The future is the keeper of the memories of the past -- Mario
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. -- Corrie Ten Boom
Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories. -- Steven Wright
It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past ... -- George Sand
I never get hung up on the past - the memories are too negative. -- Brigitte Bardot
You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories. -- Eric Cantona
I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future. -- David Gerrold
Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory. -- James Stephens
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. -- Adrienne Rich
May today be filled With bright hopes for the future And happy memories of the past -- John Walter Bratton
In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail. -- Stanislav Grof
Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past. -- Olga Kurylenko
There is always tension between the possibilities we aspire to and our wounded memories and past mistakes. -- Sean Brady
If you think the memories of the past too much, you will miss creating the new ones! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude. -- Bruce Lee
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The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past. -- Jean Henri Fabre
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past. -- Jean Henri Fabre
The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase. -- Gregory Maguire
Favorite People, Favorite Places, Favorite Memories of the past ... These are the joys of a lifetime Those are the things that last -- Henry Van Dyke
Dreams are composed of many things, my son. Of images and hopes, of fears and memories. Memories of the past, and memories of the future... -- Neil Gaiman
in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth. -- Madame de Stael
In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future. -- Gustav Stresemann
In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense. -- Kevin Systrom
All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal. -- Daniel Kahneman
The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels. -- Rupert Sheldrake
It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later. -- George Foreman
I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now. -- Sophia Loren
An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that it can entice... or terrify, all depending upon how we conduct ourselves today. -- Jim Davis
If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God. -- Pope Francis
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. -- Lewis B. Smedes
The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and, when we who live in the present touch them, they are suddenly stretched taut and then they propel us into the future. -- Yukio Mishima
I know well there is no comfort for this pain of parting. The wound always remains, but one learns to bear the pain, and learns to thank God for what he gave. For the beautiful memories of the past, and the yet more beautiful hope for the future. -- Max Muller
I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude. -- Bruce Lee
I'd rather do something than read about it." "That's fine, but if you do it, and then can't think what it means, it's never much of a memory. Life has more to so with memories of the past and longings for the future than it ever does with *right now*." -pg 138-9 -- Dean Hughes
To all that come to this happy place, welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America... with hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world. -- Walt Disney
What are memories but dreams of a better past. -- Robert Breault
The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. -- George Orwell
Memories are not just about the past. They determine our future. -- Jeff Bridges
Here the past was everywhere, an entire continent sown with memories. -- Miranda Richmond Mouillot
Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories. -- Sally Mann
The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you. -- Michael Dolan
The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge. -- Pat Barker
These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me. -- Evelyn Waugh
Mistakes were mistakes, and failures were failures. Why torment someone with the memories of their past? -- Miyuki Miyabe
Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not. -- Cormac McCarthy
What takes us back to the past are the memories. What brings us forward is our dreams. -- Jeremy Irons
Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts. -- Philip Roth
It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. -- George Foreman
We try to keep the beautiful memories, but other things from the past creep up on us. -- Edwidge Danticat
My happiest memories have no place in the past; they are those I have yet to create. -- Ellen Hopkins
The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter. -- Charles de Lint
The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. -- Robert M. Pirsig
Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past. -- William Finnegan
Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief. -- Holly Black
For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past. -- Tan Twan Eng
there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction. -- Jonah Lehrer
Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past. -- William Faulkner
In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history. -- Anthony Doerr
We are all the product of our past and have to live with our memories and personality they cannot be erased. -- Jane Hersey
I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past. -- Rachel Field
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality. -- Robert Smithson
...your memories will be muddled and uncataloged - past, present, and imagination all mixed together. The same thing happens in dreams. -- Dan Brown
Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past. -- Jean Anouilh
I want a new past,new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to start over in every possible way. -- Isaac Marion
One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past. -- Samuel Johnson
These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past -- Ishmael
I look back at the past as fond memories but I'm able to move forwards in a new light, like I'm reborn. -- Brendon Urie
A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future. -- Bruce Barton
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. -- Honore de Balzac
Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change. -- Jaimie Alexander
Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change. -- Jaimie Alexander
Don't resurrect relationships with negative people off of good memories. You will only remind yourself why they became your past in the first place. -- Keshia Chante
I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories. -- Deborah Moggach
It is nature's kindness that we do not remember past births. Life would be a burden if we carried such a tremendous load of memories. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Withdraw, like a turtle, into a hard yet harmless shell, ornamented with beautiful memories of the past.from the book 'I Know Who You Are! -- Mariam Masood
Out of our deepest memories come the forgotten forms of the past, given new life by the living sentience of an ancient and eternal forest. -- Robert Holdstock
Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone. -- John Slattery
I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories -- Lou Reed
You won't be free from guilt if you are constantly replaying the negative memories of your past. If you're going to replay anything, replay your victories! -- Joel Osteen
Witness your thoughts, moods, and behaviors. They represent your memories of the past, and by witnessing them in the present, you liberate yourself from the past. -- Deepak Chopra
I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories. -- David Rakoff
But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even." -- Irvine Welsh
But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even. -- Irvine Welsh
It was mint and memories and the past and the future and she felt as if she'd done this before and already she longed to do it again. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for every conceivable recording need. -- Graydon Carter
If I shut everything else out and filled the room with memories, the past could become the present, and I could live there, with him. I would never leave. -- NA
The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present. -- Alan Watts
Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future. -- Mattie Stepanek
My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the past. -- Steve Irwin

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