Famous Quotes & Sayings

Art Linkletter

If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.

Azar Nafisi

Imagine you are walking down a leafy path…The sun is receding, and you are walking alone, caressed by the breezy light of the late afternoon. Then suddenly, you feel a large drop on your right arm. Is it raining? You look up. The sky is still deceptively sunny…seconds later another drop. Then, with the sun still perched in the sky, you are drenched in a shower of rain. This is how memories invade me, abruptly and unexpectedly…

Azar Nafisi

I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.

Eddie Redmayne

I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't.

Aristotle

Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As already observed, there is no such thing as memory of the present while present, for the present is object only of perception, and the future, of expectation, but the object of memory is the past. All memory, therefore, implies a time elapsed; consequently only those animals which perceive time remember, and the organ whereby they perceive time is also that whereby they remember.

Aristotle

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Ben Kingsley

I've met quite a number of people in my career, but I do have an extraordinary memory. And even though they may drift into the periphery of my memory, I can bring them right back when I need them.

Ben Jonson

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

Ed Parker

Time and space may separate us, but not the thoughts and memories that bind us.

Elizabeth Bowen

Memory must be patchy; what is more alarming is its face-savingness. Something in one shrinks from catching it out - unique to oneself, one's own, one's claim to identity, it implicates one's identity in its fibbing.

Elizabeth Bowen

I know that I have in my make-up layers of synthetic experiences, and that the most powerful of my memories are only half true.

Elizabeth Bowen

memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.

Eleanora Duse

I use everything that I pick up in my memory, and everything that vibrates in my soul.

Deepak Chopra

Memory is useful because it gives us a sense of continuity. But memory is also imprisoning because it conditions us in predictable ways.

Deepak Chopra

Are you ready to step out of the prison of memory and conditioned responses into the experience of freedom? If so, then observe your addictive behaviors without judgment.

Deepak Chopra

When we use memories, we are creators. But when our memories use us, we become victims.

Deepak Chopra

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

You can keep your memory intact, preserve your brain's health, and minimize the risk of aging and senile dementia, things that are greatly feared as people grow older.

Deepak Chopra

Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.

Deepak Chopra

I use memories but I will not allow memories to use me.

Deepak Chopra

In reality there is nothing to fear in the present. Fear is projected onto the present by memory.

Deepak Chopra

When we meditate, we go beyond the swirl of thoughts, memories and emotions that tend to keep us stuck in our ego's story of who we are. We enter an expanded state of awareness and discover our own inner fountain of joy, a source of happiness that isn't dependent on anyone or anything.

Deepak Chopra

Use memories. Do not let memories use you.

Dionne Warwick

Tom Walls and his cohort are wolves in sheep's clothing who will besmirch the memory of some genuine historic figures by the next full moon.

David Bowie

It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory.

So many people in Murray that are older have memories of this house. I have a lot of work to do.

She was just talking about the old memories we had at the Super D drug store where we used to work and how I made her laugh.

Alexander Wang

Probably the earliest memories for me would be going to restaurants with my family.

Alexander Pushkin

As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.

Alexander Smith

Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have kindled, and all their echoes are the echoes of our own voices.

Alexander Smith

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Herzen

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, "just in case," in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Alexander Lowen

The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists, the memory remains vivid.