Memories Quotes

Surrendering is not giving up--it is gaining strength.

~ Grace Sara

Jealousy, and attempting to match others in life and stride, is self-abandonment.

~ Grace Sara

Taking care of yourself will take care of more than yourself.

~ Grace Sara

Control is an illusion that you must give up.

~ Grace Sara

Forgiveness is a skill gained by those willing to change.

~ Grace Sara

It is not so much about fighting against the ego, it is more about harmonizing with it.

~ Grace Sara

To greet the present is to part with the past and future.

~ Grace Sara

When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

We thought everything would be forgotten, but I still remember yourclaws running down my back.I wonder if you still think about us,the way I do.How our legs would crash into each other in the middle of the night, and how we endedup creating the moon in the confines of our beds.

~ Zaeema J. Hussain

Unhappiness is caused when we cannot let go of our memories.

~ Jed Rubenfeld

Your life isn't behind you, your memories are behind you. Your life is ALWAYS ahead of you. Today is a new day - seize it!

~ Steve Maraboli

Happiness is not always a reality many times it is in our memory.

~ Hockson Floin

Why is it that happiness remembered feels like despair?

~ Heather Chaplin

He asked me once what I wanted when I died, what I wanted out of life, and I told him I just wanted more happy memories than sad ones.

~ R. Y.s. Perez

Was that the point of suffering: to understand, in some way, what you still had? To clarify it, to rip the stars from the sky and hold them in the hand like diamonds‒to darken all the rest but the most glittering, glad memories? Was that the way to live a sunny life?

~ Amber Sparks

When it seems you are having too much fun, then a switch turns on in your head and makes you think; if only there were a way to take a snapshot of this moment and place it into a mason jar next to some peach preserves. Or, you can just close your eyes and let the joy sink into your psyche. Each, in their own way will last a lifetime. - A.H. Scott 4/29/12

~ A.h. Scott

He felt like home.

~ Joanne Kenrick

It frightens me that I can't do anything sensible about it.Are you scared that you'll wind up with a boring job where you have to see the same people every day and drink instant coffee?I'm more scared that I'll forget the feeling I have now.Kind of like how you forgot how it feels to be three years old.That surely I'll wind up thinking I was so young, I didn't really understand everything. It bothers me that I know I will be wrong.

~ Gunnar Ardelius

Your memory feels like home to me.So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you.

~ Ranata Suzuki

He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.

~ Cheryl Strayed

Times like this were special. Memory builders. When something extraordinary happened to a person the kind of things remembered forever after it didn't have to be a life-changing event like a graduation or marriage or birth of a child. It more often was the small things. The sheer joy of summer sunlight on a fragrant flower. The giggle of a toddler. The brush of a lover's fingertips. And the person marks the moment with the flashing insight thinking... This is special. I should remember this

~ Sandra Hill

Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope.

~ Gayla Reid

How is it that hearts hold on to memories with the strength of hope and possibilities.

~ Alfa H

She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she could be dead because she had tried to save the man she loved.

~ Grace Willows

Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won't even be looking at the sky. Excerpt from Grace Willow's Last Minute Bride

~ Grace Willows

Every corner and room of a house will carry memories, make these the most pleasurable times you shared with your family.

~ Anthony Liccione

You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.

~ Grace Willows

You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his kneesExcerpt from To Kiss a King by Grace WillowsComing this summer to Amazon Kindle and paperback.

~ Grace Willows

Wherever you are and whatever you do, I hope you find the time to dwell in your favourite memories. It is one of the most beautiful and relaxing things we can do, no matter when and no matter where.

~ James Andrew Crosby

Our essential humanity is dependent upon humankind’s ability to join the past and the future with the present. Recollections and future projections grant us the ability to cogitate, analyze, and evaluate. Contrasting memories enable us to ascertain what is true and false, and determine what is charming, attractive, stunning, or sublime. Remembrance of the past serves to comfort us, awareness of the future offers us hope, while our dutiful engagement in the present is capable of arresting our complete attention.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Living in the moment works sometimes, but when alone, it clouds over your memories and dreams, and those are what I need to survive.

~ D.s. Mixell

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.From an Irish headstone

~ Richard Puz

People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.

~ Haruki Murakami

If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.

~ David Levithan

Tessa had lain down beside him and slid her arm beneath his head, and put her head on his chest,listening to the ever-weakening beat of his heart. And in the shadows they'd whispered, reminding each other of the stories only they knew. Of the girl who had hit over the head with a water jug the boy who had come to rescue her, and how he had fallen in love with her in that instant. Of a ballroom and a balcony and the moon sailing like a ship untethered through the sky. Of the flutter of the wings of the clockwork Angel. Of holy water and blood.

~ Cassandra Clare

I thought of you and how you love this beauty,And walking up the long beach all aloneI heard the waves breaking in measured thunderAs you and I once heard their monotone.Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond meThe cold and sparkling silver of the sea --We two will pass through death and ages lengthenBefore you hear that sound again with me.

~ Sara Teasdale

If we knew a person was going to die, we'd hold harder to the memories.Fire corrected him, in a whisper. The good memories.

~ Kristin Cashore

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

...what happens when you returnand find nothingbut a hollowed shell,shingles and floor,walls and echoesand the light that lead you herehas now burned outand the ones who built ithave traveled afarand you cant go to them,no matter what shoes you wear.

~ Kellie Elmore

They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by little in their own time, turning into memories, mists from other days, until they were absorbed into oblivion.

~ Gabriel García Márquez