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“Those who have no mental vigilance, Though they may hear the teachings, ponder them or meditate, With minds like water seeping from a leaking jug, Their learning will not settle in their memories.”

Mind May Wisdom Water Memories Teaching Settling Pondering Vigilance Jugs

Author:Shantideva

“You may think you don't have talents, but that is a false assumption, for we all have talents and gifts, every one of us. The bounds of creativity extend far beyond the limits of a canvas or a sheet of paper and do not require a brush, a pen, or the keys of a piano. Creation means bringing into existence something that did not exist before-colorful gardens, harmonious homes, family memories, flowing laughter.”

“In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive.”

Years May Two Age Memories Alive Politician Thousand Forgotten Immortality Thousand Years Bernard Shaw Stravinsky Madame Curie

Author:Anthony Burgess

“Let me recommend to you not to have too great dependence on your practice or memory, however strong those impressions may have been which are there deposited. They are forever wearing out, and will be at least obliterated, unless they are continually refreshed and repaired.”

May Has Beens Strong Memories Practice Forever Let Me Impression Dependence

Author:Joshua Reynolds

“I really want to do well at this upcoming match! I'm going to try really really hard! Because it may be my dad's first memory of a match. I really want to win.”

Want Trying Firsts Wells May Hard Winning Memories Dad Drama My Dad

Author:Kim Su-mi

“Memories may escape the action of the will, may sleep a long time, but when stirred by the right influence, though that influence be light as a shadow, they flash into full stature and life with everything in place”

May Long Light Action Memories Sleep Influence Long Time Shadow Flash Stature

Book:John Muir: Nature Writings

Source: John Muir: Nature Writings

“Yet let us not pass from memory those left absent from our arms. Those who sacrificed their lives so that all may live free!”

May Left Memories Arms Absent Live Free

Author:Spartacus

“It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.”

Men May Memories Strange Floats Posterity Trifling

Book:Men and books: collected and reprinted from the Canadian Medical Association Journal

Source: Men and books: collected and reprinted from the Canadian Medical Association Journal

“It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a doll inside our head, the only woman who is always available in fact, the only one we shall ever possess, whom the arbitrary nature of memory, almost as absolute as that of the imagination, may have made as different from the real woman as the real Balbec had been from the Balbec I imagined- a dummy creation that little by little, to our own detriment, we shall force the real woman to resemble.”

World May Littles Made Different Real Facts Force Imagination Memories Creation Absolutes Available Deception Wicked Arbitrary Dolls Outside World Dummy Real Women

Book:The Guermantes Way

Source: The Guermantes Way

“Each minute bursts in the burning room,The great globe reels in the solar fire,Spinning the trivial and unique away.(How all things flash! How all things flare!)What am I now that I was then?May memory restore again and againThe smallest color of the smallest day:Time is the school in which we learn,Time is the fire in which we burn.”

May School Memories Rooms Fire Minutes Color Unique All Things Burning Flash Smallest Globes Spinning Flare

Author:Delmore Schwartz