#memory

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#life #long #memory #nation

A good memory is needed after one has lied. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#good #good memory #lied #memory #needed

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#good memory #lie #memory #ought #told

I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#back #blurred #comes #i #i do

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire. ↗

— John Dewey

#desire #heart #memory #nearer #reality

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama. ↗

— George Eliot

#mood #temper #life

At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus on the energy flow (emotional states) and a verbal focus on the information-processing aspects (representational processes of memory and narrative) of mental life. The matter of the mind matters for secure attachments. ↗

— Daniel J. Siegel

#emotion #meaning #memory #neuropsychology #life

Sometimes Midas suspected that life was a film with subliminal messages. Things would move along with an acceptable degree of predictability, then be punctuated by some horrible childhood memory. ↗

— Ali Shaw

#life #memory #life

I make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interesting ↗

— Jude Morgan

#memory #life

It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with him before, hungry, wanting, desperate. It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with anyone before. This kiss was so soft that it was like a memory of a kiss, so careful on my lips that it was like someone running his fingers along them. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#hungry #kiss #love #memory #someone