#memo

Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its darkness, stories that nobody wants to admit they believe but which nevertheless survive in the memory of generations as the only chronicle of the past. It is as if the people who inhabit the streets, inspired by some mysterious wisdom, relalise that the true history of Calcutta has always been written in the invisible tales of its spirits and unspoken curses. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#calcutta #chronicle-of-the-past #darkness #generations #ghosts

Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject? ↗

— Slash Coleman

#inspirational #life #memoir #self-help #stories

An act of kindness may take only a moment of our time, but when captured in the heart the memory lives forever. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#forever-love #heart #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #joy

Reflection is a good thing. It allows us to look back in time so we can connect the dots between specific memories to reveal the purpose and meaning behind synchronistic events. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#connect-dots #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #life-purpose #memories

The things that your eyes see plainly and cant forget are worse than huddled black figures left to the imagination. ↗

— Kendare Blake

#memory #see #imagination

Imagination has a poor memory, it slinks away and gets blurry. Eyes remember much longer. ↗

— Kendare Blake

#imagination

Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#inspirational #memory #inspirational

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

#imagination

The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you. ↗

— R.J. Palacio

#honor #inspiration #memories #inspirational

I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#memoir #running #inspirational