“So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood.” BelieveLongPastJoyMotherFatherImaginationMemoriesMorningGoneForeverChildhoodSunlightRecallsOur FatherBosomsOur MemoriesGladnessApricotsJoys Of Childhood Book:Four Novels of George Eliot Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few of your memories come to you genuinely virgin.” IfsYearsLooksSeemsTogetherPastBeliefMemoriesHappenedContraryVirginsOur MemoriesContrary To Popular Belief Author:George Orwell
“That the past is ahead, in front of us, is a conception of time that helps us retain our memories and to be aware of its presents. What is behind us [the future] cannot be seen and is liable to be forgotten readily. What is ahead of us [the past] cannot be forgotten so readily or ignored, for it is in front of our minds' eyes, always reminding us of its presence. The past is alive in us, so in more than a metaphorical sense the dead are alive - we are our history.” MindHelpingEyePastMemoriesBehindsAliveFrontsForgottenConceptionIgnoredOur MemoriesRemindingLiableMetaphorical Author:Epeli Hau'ofa
“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
“In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.” StoriesPastMemoriesOur LivesOur MemoriesChronologyTranscription Book:About Grace: A Novel Source: About Grace: A Novel
“Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly hangs about it, since it is the immovable standard and silent witness of all our memories and assertions; and the past and the future, which in our anxious life are so differently interesting and so differently dark, are one seamless garment for the truth, shining like the sun.” IdeasRealityTruthPastFatherMemoriesDarkInterestingSunTruth IsStandardsShiningSilentWitnessAweCoveredAnxiousOur FatherGarmentsOur MemoriesAssertionEclecticSeamless Book:Scepticism and Animal Faith Source: Scepticism and Animal Faith