“It had come to me not in a sudden epiphany but with a gradual sureness, a sense of meaning like a sense of place. When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds them with the invisible crop of memories and associations that will be waiting for you when you come back, while new places offer up new thoughts, new possibilities. Exploring the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains.” KnowsWorldWayGivingMindWaitingMemoriesPossibilityWalkingOffersSeedsInvisibleBest WayAssociationExploringCropsNew ThoughtEpiphanyWaiting For YouTerrainNew PlacesNew PossibilitiesSense Of PlaceExploring The World Book:Wanderlust: A History of Walking Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“Par toi tout le bonheur que m'offre l'avenir Est dans mon souvenir. Through you, all the happiness that the future offers Is in my memory.” MemoriesOffersSouvenirs Author:Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
“You must overcome any shyness and have a conversation with the librarian, because he can offer you reliable advice that will save you much time. You must consider that the librarian (if not overworked or neurotic) is happy when he can demonstrate two things: the quality of his memory and erudition and the richness of his library, especially if it is small. The more isolated and disregarded the library, the more the librarian is consumed with sorrow for its underestimation. A person who asks for help makes the librarian happy.” IfsPersonsTwoHelpingAsksMemoriesQualityAdviceSorrowOffersConversationOvercomingLibraryTwo ThingsIsolatedConsumedLibrarianRichnessNeuroticShynessDisregardedErudition Author:Umberto Eco
“Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.” MemoriesVirtueOffersFameRewardsSplendidPosterityMe Alone Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can.” WorldArtBookSometimesMemoriesAdventureOffersIntenseAlternativesOur Memories Author:Anthony Doerr
“Living in the present moment requires discretion toward memory. Without memory we'd have amnesia. What good would there be in that? Offer discretion and discernment for our past with a broad spectrum of forgiveness. As for our present moment, delight. And dedication to remain fully present to all the possibility.” MomentsPastMemoriesPossibilityOffersDelightPresent MomentBroadsDedicationOur PastSpectrumDiscernmentDiscretionLive In The PresentAmnesia Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“Nothing in our daily life offers more of the comfort of continuity, the generational connection of belonging to a vast and complicated American family, the powerful sense of home, the freedom from time's constraints, and the great gift of accumulated memory than does our National Pastime.” DoeHomeMemoriesPowerfulComfortOffersConnectionsComplicatedDaily LifeBelongingContinuityConstraintsPastimeGreat GiftsAmerican Family Author:Ken Burns
“The invention of writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom.” WritingMindCharacterUseMemoriesPracticeProduceOffersAppearanceInventionDiscouragingPupilsForgetfulnessRemindingTrue WisdomElixir Author:Socrates