#memory

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.From an Irish headstone"

"Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one."

"How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves."

"Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever."

"The memory of her love shimmers the way white light ripples gently on the midnight river, and I am currently thirsting to swim in the current that will flow downstream into her wading and waiting arms."

"Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!"

"Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before."

"Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always"

"...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful,"it will be more likely to be recalled in the future."