“You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.” LooksProblemPastDesireChurchMemoriesBuildingGoes OnWeightUrgentCrushedPast MemoriesBuilding Something Author:Pope Francis
“It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory.” WritingYearsKidsDifferencesMemoriesBehindsWeightOdd Author:David Bowie
“I know what it is to put on weight. But when I got back to my routine, my body knew how to react. That's muscle memory, and you'll be amazed at what it can do.” KnowsBodyCan DoMemoriesWeightMusclesRoutineAmazedMuscle Memory Author:Arjun Rampal
“Historians, only things of weight, Results of persons, or affairs of State, Briefly, with truth and clearness should relate; Laconic shortness memory feeds.” ShouldPersonsStatesMemoriesResultsWeightAffairRelateHistorianClearnessShortnessLaconic Author:James R. Heath
“However, for the man who studies to gain insight, books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he climbs to the summit of knowledge. As soon as a rung has raised him up one step, he leaves it behind. On the other hand, the many who study in order to fill their memory do not use the rungs of the ladder for climbing, but take them off and load themselves with them to take away, rejoicing at the increasing weight of the burden. They remain below forever, because they bear what should have bourne them.” MenShouldBookUseHandsOrderMemoriesBehindsStepsForeverStudyHe ManBearsGainsShould HaveWeightRaisedBurdenInsightClimbsClimbingRejoiceLoadLaddersSummitBourne Book:101 Facts of life Source: 101 Facts of life
“One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good.” WayPastMemoriesWeightBest WayOccasionsRecallsOur MemoriesPromptsHappy TimesGreat MemoriesMake Yourself Happy Author:Gretchen Rubin
“When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those years, but of what life had then promised to be. The expectation of some indefinable splendor, of the unusual, the exciting, the great is an attribute of youth and the process of aging is the process of that expectations' gradual extinction. One does not have to let it happen. But that fire dies for lack of fuel, under the gray weight of disappointments.” PeopleYearsLooksDoeHappensDiesProcessMemoriesFireChildhoodYouthExpectationsWeightExcitingAgingDisappointmentFuelGrayUnusualAttributesExtinctionSplendorIndefinableWistfulness Author:Victor Hugo
“...the idea of a spiritual part of our nature that survives death, the notion of an afterlife, ought to be easy for religions and nations to sell. This is not an issue of which we might anticipate widespread skepticism. People will want to believe it, even if the evidence is meager to nil... compelling testimony ... provides that our personality, character, memory ... resides in the matter of the brain, it is easy not to focus on it, to find ways to evade the weight of the evidence.” PeopleIfsWayWantBelieveIdeasMatterCharacterMightSpiritualNationsEasyMemoriesBrainIssuesFocusPersonalityOughtEvidenceWeightSellsNotionAfterlifeCompellingSkepticismTestimonyAnticipate Author:Carl Sagan
“There's an increase in serious weight disorders from cellphone use. And people who don't sleep have serious other consequences for their health that can be associated with it. There may be as well increases in problems with their memory. And all of those things are not as sexy and don't demand as much attention as cancer, but they can be very, very important from a public health point of view.” PeopleWellsMayImportantUseProblemMemoriesSleepViewsAttentionSeriousDemandConsequenceWeightIncreaseCancerSexyPoint Of ViewDisorderPublic HealthCellphone Author:Devra Davis