#memories

Unhappy memories are persistent. They're specific, and it's the details that refuse to leave us alone. Though a happy memory may stay with you just as long as one that makes you miserable, what you remember softens over time. What you recall is simply that you were happy, not necessarily the individual moments that brought about your joy. But the memory of something painful does just the opposite. It retains its original shape, all bony fingers and pointy elbows. Every time it returns, you get a quick poke in the eye or jab in the stomach. The memory of being unhappy has the power to hurt us long after the fact. We feel the injury anew each and every time we think of it. ↗

— Cameron Dokey

#memories #beauty

I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life. ↗

— Eric Cantona

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You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories. ↗

— Eric Cantona

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Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#care #memories #relive #take #take care

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories. ↗

— John Williams

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Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#existed #gives #lives #longer #memories

I love out-of-the-way, rugged places. For me, holidays are about the experiences, and the people, and the memories, rather than sitting on a nice beach getting tanned. I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#am #beach #embrace #experiences #front

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

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When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

#earliest #earliest memories #first #four #grew