“We are vulnerable to fear only when we leave the present. If I drift into the past, my regrets surge up, my memories of failing and forsaking. If I shift into the future, I meet with doubt and delusion, fear of what's to come, what I'm not capable of controlling. It's in the present moment that I belong.” IfsMomentsPastFearMemoriesDoubtFailingRegretFutureCapableVulnerableDelusionPresent Moment Author:Jan Phillips
“We are the women of daylight; of clocks and steel foundries, of drugstores and streetlights, of superhighways that slice our days in two. Our dreams are pale memories of themselves, and nagging doubt is the false measure of our days.” TwoDreamMemoriesDoubtClockPaleDishesSteelOur DreamsDaylightNagging Book:Life is a Fatal Disease: Collected Poems 1962-1995 Source: Life is a Fatal Disease: Collected Poems 1962-1995
“So long his name and face are lost in memory-s afterglow; Nor do I recollect of pride or joy or doubt or fright Or other circumstance which marked that time for solo flight The cryptic words alone endure : he said -you're on your own- And down through time I've found it so - the test-s to walk alone” LongSaidFacesJoyFoundNamesLostMemoriesWalksDoubtPrideCircumstancesTestsEndureFlightAviationSoloFrightRough TimesCrypticAfterglow Author:Gill Robb Wilson
“Flee and your bad behavior will be fixed in people's minds. Return, seem in goo spirits, and everyone will doubt their own memory of events.” PeopleMindSeemsSpiritMemoriesDoubtEventsReturnBehaviorFixedBad Behavior Book:A Most Unsuitable Man Source: A Most Unsuitable Man
“If ever I had any doubts about the fundamental realities of religion, they could always be dispelled by one memory- the light upon my father's face as he came back from early communion.” IfsRealityLightFacesFatherMemoriesDoubtFundamentalsCommunion Book:Two worlds for memory Source: Two worlds for memory
“I John Hancock, . . . being advanced in years and being of perfect mind and memory-thanks be given to God-therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing it is appointed for all men once to die [Hebrews 9:27], do make and ordain this my last will and testament...Principally and first of all, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it: and my body I recommend to the earth . . . nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mercy and power of God. . .” MenGivingYearsMindFirstsSoulBodyHandsEarthLastsDiesGivenMemoriesPerfectKnowingDoubtCallingMercyThanksMy SoulMortalityResurrectionTestamentHebrewPower Of GodHands Of GodWills And Testaments Author:John Hancock
“Doubting what you see is a very odd experience. And doubting what you remember is a little less odd than doubting what you see. But it's also a pretty odd experience, because some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them, and that happens to be the case even for memories that are not true.” LittlesHappensRememberMemoriesCasesDoubtOddCompelling Author:Daniel Kahneman