"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." ~William Penn
"Dictum sapienti sat est - A word to a wise person is sufficient." ~Cicero Ovid Seneca

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Quotes on MEMORIES and NOSTALGIA


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

"A song will outlive all sermons in the memory." ~Henry Giles

"A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope." ~Charles M. Schulz

"A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.” ~Brian Jacques, Redwall

"As long as we have friendship,
today is beautiful. As long as we have memories,
yesterday remains. As long as we have hope,
tomorrow awaits." ~Anon

"As we grow older, real beauty travels from the face to the heart, appeal turns to charm, hurt turns to wisdom, and great moments to shared memories. The true beauty of life is not how happy you are now, but how happy others are because of you." ~Kelly's Treehouse

"But the most beautiful things in life are not just things. They are people and places, memories and pictures. They're feelings and moments and smiles and laughters." ~Mindset Creator

“Coming home seemed to have started the healing process. No longer vivid and garish, the memories seemed to be covered in gossemer, fading behind a curtain of time and forgiveness.” ~Karen Fowler, Memories For Sale

"During the times that hurt the most, it is important to remember that the people we lose are never gone from us. They will always exist in the hearts of those they loved, in memories and in their legacy that will continue on forever." ~Tobin Brothers

"Go as many places as you can, whenever you can. You can always make money. You can't always make memories. Take vacations." ~DEMIC

"He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying." ~Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

"Home is where your favorite memories are." ~Anon

“In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die; and in the long years after, they can be called up in detail, and every emotion that was stirred by them can be lived through anew; these are the tragedies of life.” ~James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

"It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you’re capable of far more than you have imagined. Visit your soul; don’t visit your past." ~Paulo Coelho

"Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories." ~Cathy Allen

"Love leaves a memory no one can steal." ~Anon

"Memory is a network of brain cells which stretches across different regions of the brain and is constantly being updated. This constant updating is an important function that allows us humans to learn new things and to problem-solve, among other skills." ~Life Coach Code (9 Eyeopening Psychology Facts About You, Others and Reality)

"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

"Memory is the scribe of the soul." ~Aristotle

"Memories are gifts. We place them in the hearts of others to be unwrapped when we are no longer around." ~Susan Gale

"Memories are hand-me-downs from generation to generation. They may not seem special at the time they're given, but they become more and more priceless as years go by." ~Susan Gale Wickes

"Memories are just like a stack of China wares. We cannot just pull-off one because it might damage the rest!" ~Larry P. Silva

"Memories are made of photographs." ~Leah C. Dancel, May 28, 2022

"Memories are the most beautiful pictures our minds can paint and nothing can ever erase them." ~The Journey Home

"Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others." ~Rosa Parks

"Most of us do not purposely create our legacies. We live our lives, follow our hearts, try to bravely do what our hearts tell us, and when we die, we are remembered by the collection of stories and memories that make up our lives." ~Krizette Laureta Chu, on How You Will Be Remembered When You Die

"My memories mean a lot to me, and I hold them close to my heart." ~Radhika Apte  

“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” ~Haruki Murakami

"None of us know how much time we have left on this earth. What is left in the end are your actions, the memories you left behind and how you made people feel. And what you want to leave behind is people to remember you with love." ~Brigitte Nicole

"Nothing like music, song and dance to make a memory last." ~Joffre Balce 

"Oftentimes, the best and sweetest memories are moments when we pause for a while, smile, and treasure a time worth remembering!" ~Rado Gatchalian

"One day you'll be just a memory for some people. Do your best to be good one." ~Anon

"One must never fail to remember where one has been." ~George Daniel Anos

"One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good." ~Gretchen Rubin

"Photos capture our memories in print, but our memories are always with us in our minds." ~Catherine Pulsifer

"Please, please remember to slow down in life, appreciate those around you and take the time to make memories of the things that matter.” ~Anon

"Seeing old photographs, we get to travel back to all the beautiful memories we made, which will keep tugging at our heartstrings forever." ~Odo Valdez

"Simple moments with your grandchildren often become priceless memories." ~Anon

“So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood. Doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot, but it is gone for ever from our imagination, and we can only BELIEVE in the joy of childhood.” ~George Eliot, Adam Bede

"Some days the memories still knock the wind out of me." ~Anon

"Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heartwarming." ~Joseph B. Wirthlin

"‪Some memories of the past brings joy and so comforting to remember." ~‬Emilio Laxamana Aguinaldo

“Some of my earliest and fondest memories of my mother are of her kneeling at the side of per bed every night and praying. As a child, I would always get very close to her as she prayed. I would put my ear as close as I could to her mouth and try my best to hear what she was saying to God, but I never could make out the words. Today, being married to an addict myself, I'm pretty sure I know exactly what she was praying.” ~Barbara Bice, Just Right

"Some of life's best memories are made with your shoes off…." ~Susan Gale

“Sometimes, it's better to bunk a class and enjoy with friends, because now, when I look back, marks never make me laugh, but memories do.” ~A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory." ~Dr. Seuss

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” ~Leonardo da Vinci

"Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart." ~Washington Irving (1783-1859)

"Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them." ~Bob Dylan

"The best memories are always made around the table." ~KESHinang Malupit, July 5, 2020

"The best thing about memories is making them." ~Amy Rees Anderso

"The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new." ~Marcus Porcius Cato

"The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories" ~Og Mandino

"The most beautiful things are not associated with money; they are memories and moments. If you don't celebrate those, they can pass you by." ~Alek Wek

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting” ― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

"The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day. . . we become seekers." ~Peter Matthiessen

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” ~Lois Lowry, The Giver. (from Haizer Adrias Libcat)

"There is an ancient Indian saying that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. My people have come to trust memory over history. Memory, like fire, is radiant and immutable while history serves only those who seek to control it, those who douse the flame of memory in order to put out the dangerous fire of truth. Beware these men for they are dangerous themselves and unwise. Their false history is written in the blood of those who might remember and of those who seek the truth." ~Floyd Red Crow Westerman

"Time moves in one direction, memory in another." ~William Gibson

"We didn't realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun." ~Winnie the Pooh

"We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory." ~Georges Duhamel

"We never understand the real value of someone until that someone becomes a memory." ~Anon

"We should leave behind beautiful memories for those who will continue to travel on the train of life...." ~John McDonald

"What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?" ~George Eliot

"Wishing you peace to bring comfort, courage to face the days ahead and loving memories to forever hold in your heart." ~Anon

"You can buy children anything in the world, but nothing will compare to the memories you make with them." ~Grandparents dot com

"You can not separate the old furniture from the memories and the memories from the old furniture." ~Mehmet Murat Ildan


NOSTALGIA

"Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days." ~Doug Larson

“Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: You find the present tense and the past perfect." Doug Larson


RELATED QUOTES

"If you remember anything of me, after I leave this world, remember that I loved even when it was foolish. That I cared even when it was unwanted. When my body is gone remember my heart." ~Anon

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends." ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed." ~Charles Schulz

"Forgetting is the first step to completely removing something from our cultural collective memory. A society that remembers is a healthier society than one that keeps restarting from scratch.” ~Todd McGrain, an art professor at Cornell University

"People get discouraged. They should remember, from me, it takes courage not to be discouraged.” ~Ben Ferencz, a son of Romanian Jewish immigrants who found refuge in the United States

“Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.” ~Mahatma Gandhi

"The best thing about memories is making them." ~Anon

"Then there's the sacred part of me that remembers the pain, but waits with a hopeful, open heart for love to remember its way home." ~Jody Doty

"There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.” ~Anne Frank

"Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs." ~George Eliot

"We all have a wonderful memory to look back to and marvel at how gracious and good our God is." ~Romeo Balingcongan

"We should always remember, the future is not somewhere we are going, it is something we are creating." ~Ian Lowe, ACF President, 2004-2014

"Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories." ~Steven Wright

"Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory!" ~John Keats

"Without history, there is no memory. Without memory, there is no future. If we don't learn from the past, we repeat the same mistakes again." ~Max Eisen, now 91 Holocaust Survivor, then 15 in 1944 Auschwitz Extermination Camp, Poland. An excerpt from the movie: The Accountant of Auschwitz and his book: By Chance Alone


VERSE

"Your life was a blessing,
Your memory a treasure,
You are loved beyond words
And missed beyond measure."
~Anon from Creating Connections

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