“ Sometimes, I miss so much the person that I was before the world tore me up in so many places. If only "they" could have just let me stay that way. C. JoyBell C.
“ ...and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the mansion-house, or look an adieu to the cottage, with its black, dripping and comfortless veranda, or even notice through the misty glasse… Jane Austen
“ It was funny the way memory obliged the heart. His happy recollections were always afloat in his soupy subconscious where so many of his darker memories had sunk to the underbelly of his past and been… Nanci Kincaid
“ We must treasure our memories just as we cherish our dreams because without dreams and memory human life would be sad, brutal, and meaningless. Kilroy J. Oldster
“ No person is more ruthlessly cheated than someone strip-mined of his or her ability to recall the vibrancy of the past. After all, what would any person be if robbed of all sense of long-term memory?… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ Human beings are self-motivated. The two desires that spur human action are hunger and love. Without memory, humankind would no longer hunger for love. Kilroy J. Oldster
“ We came from some place and we are trending in a particular direction. Without memories, we do not know where we come from, and we cannot project our future trajectory. Without a keen awareness of our… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ A lifetime of memories does not provide empirical proof of the value of living. No one memory has a quantifiable value to anyone expect the holder of the memory. Parenting in large part consists of cr… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ Imagination and recollection of cherished memories of the pastimes are closely related. We do not recall memories verbatim. As our perspective changes regarding our place in the world, we shift throug… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ We measure time through a mental framework trussed with two major stakes: memory and expectation. Memory is that spottiness that takes place behind the eyes: memory takes place in the cloistered theat… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ Our essential humanity is dependent upon humankind’s ability to join the past and the future with the present. Recollections and future projections grant us the ability to cogitate, analyze, and evalu… Kilroy J. Oldster
