#memory

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. ↗

— Lewis B. Smedes

#bitter #cannot #change #creates #deleted

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#condensed #experience #generation #his way #incontrovertible

My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory. ↗

— Georg Solti

#entire #i #learning #learning process #memory

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#literature #living #memory #nation

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#force #freedom #heart #interference #intrusion

In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will. ↗

— Edith Stein

#eternal #god #hold #image #keep

People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#humor #memory #recall #humor

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. ↗

— George Santayana

#endow #experience #immortality #lend #memory

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. ↗

— Philip Levine

#always #am #because #grew #i

The memory is like a cat scratching my heart. ↗