“To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.” KnowsShouldMemoriesAnd LoveBurdenUseless Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“Death must obliterate all memories and affections and ideas and laws, or the awakening in the next world will be amid the welcomes, and loves and raptures of those who left us with tearful farewells, and with dying promises that they would wait to welcomes us when we should arrive. And so they do. Not sorrowfully, not anxiously, but lovingly, they wait to bid us welcome.” WorldShouldIdeasLawNextLeftWaitingMemoriesDyingPromiseAnd LoveAffectionAwakeningWelcomeFarewellRapture Author:Randolph Sinks Foster
“Gone is gone. I never miss anything or anyone because it all becomes a lovely memory. I guard my memories and love them, but I don't get in them and lie down.” LyingMemoriesGoneMissingAnd LoveLovelyMemories And Love Book:Harriet Spies Again Source: Harriet Spies Again
“I observed a thousand acts of courage, compassion and love [as a POW] and I will always treasure that memory above all others.” WarMemoriesCompassionThousandAnd LoveTreasureActs Of CouragePow Author:John McCain