#memo

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#bad one #good #good memory #gratitude #hope

I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God. ↗

— Spalding Gray

#anything #artist #because #collage #control

Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people. These memories emerge usually shortly after these children begin to talk. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#another #begin #body #children #describe

According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#any #brain #dna #genes #material

In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#detail #instances #memories #objectively #remarkable

I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

#dying #memories #time #death

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me. ↗

— Thomas More

#brings #days #fond #light #me

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#i #memoir #more #pleasant #than

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#function #hope #idea #liberate #means

I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this. ↗

— John Harsanyi

#chess #competitors #decades #games #haven