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  • Sweet is the memory of past troubles. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • 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
  • I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future. -- David Gerrold
  • 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
  • Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory. -- James Stephens
  • Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past. -- Olga Kurylenko
  • Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. -- Adrienne Rich
  • In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail. -- Stanislav Grof
  • There is always tension between the possibilities we aspire to and our wounded memories and past mistakes. -- Sean Brady
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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 is more than a memory. -- John Trudell
  • The past is one evil less and one memory more. -- Elbert Hubbard
  • Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me. -- China Mieville
  • Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future. -- Elie Wiesel
  • Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past. -- Giovanni Ruffini
  • From one moment to another memory steps back to rediscover the past -- Munia Khan
  • Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future. -- Daniel Schacter
  • The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable ... -- Susanne Katherina Langer
  • The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.] -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Mild brown eyes beckon me to the past, but memory provides no clue. -- Mason Cooley
  • Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past. -- Theodor Adorno
  • Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory. -- Katherine Center
  • Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur. -- Louise Colet
  • Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past. -- Richard Linklater
  • Happy people have neither age nor memory, they have no need of the past. -- Tahar Djaout
  • Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future. -- Jaggi Vasudev
  • Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past. -- Annie Dillard
  • To envision the future; you must forget the past and make the present a memory -- Jeremy Aldana
  • Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory -- James Stephens
  • Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. -- Lewis B. Smedes
  • A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • I have a terrible memory because I'm not interested in the past. It's done, it's done. -- Harold Prince
  • The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation. -- Eckhart Tolle
  • Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past. -- Rabindranath Tagore
  • I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude. -- Bruce Lee
  • Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life. -- Mark Van Doren
  • We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective. -- Umberto Eco
  • Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity. -- Paulo Coelho
  • Hindsight is a beautiful thing, mage. The past is for the memory, the present is for the mind. -- Ben Galley
  • Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present. -- Mario Vargas Llosa
  • The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory. -- Jorge Luis Borges
  • I would have no need for the Memory Of Things past if those which were Present were more agreeable -- Peter Ackroyd
  • The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past. -- Jean Henri Fabre
  • The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory. -- Haruki Murakami
  • The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase. -- Gregory Maguire
  • Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable. -- Charles Dudley Warner
  • Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory. -- Patricia Hampl
  • A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present. -- George Santayana
  • History is the diary of humankind; to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past. -- T.L. Rese
  • I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood. -- Gregory Crewdson
  • My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past. -- Evelyn Waugh
  • Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last? -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • ...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present. -- Jamaica Kincaid
  • The future has no memory of your past or present. You are free to make it anything you choose. So make it great! -- Meena Sarine
  • It occurred to me at some point that what really links us to the past is memory, and there's so much we've forgotten. -- Sharon Cameron
  • 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
  • If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory." Translation by David Downie -- Marguerite Yourcenar
  • Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now. -- Gautama Buddha
  • It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future. -- Nicolas Chamfort
  • Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope. -- Bryant McGill
  • Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon. -- Denis Waitley
  • Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been. -- Edgar Allan Poe
  • I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past...but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory. -- Martha Beck
  • Only everyone forgets how seldom our memory is accurate. Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past"p.193 -- Craig Clevenger
  • Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings. -- Daniel Schacter
  • Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears. -- Rollo May
  • That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as decency. -- Mary McAleese
  • Perhaps, if we don't always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is not so easily erased. -- Eva Hoffman
  • A man must have his dreams - memory dreams of the past and eager dreams of the future. I never want to stop reaching for new goals. -- Maurice Chevalier
  • The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around. -- Jonathan Lethem
  • I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past -- Stephen Covey
  • Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life. -- Edward R. Murrow
  • On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on all past things, death only dies. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with. -- Stephen Vincent Benet
  • 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
  • What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative, accessible and acceptable to oneself. -- Stanley Kauffmann
  • This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of "memory," not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing. -- Richard Rohr
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