Quotes About Remembering

#1. I don't be remembering women that I've met before. I don't remember people as a whole. It's crazy. A lot of times, people get in their feelings, like, 'You don't remember me?!'

Wale

#2. Forgiveness is "selective remembering" - a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go. But the ego is relentless - it is "capable of suspiciousness at best and viciousness at worst.

Marianne Williamson

#3. You can change your emotion immediately .. by thinking of something joyful, or singing a song, or remembering a happy experience.

Rhonda Byrne

#4. I don't like remembering. Remembering makes me feel things. I don't like feeling things.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#5. The hardest part of growing old is remembering what it was like when you were young. Alvin in The Straight Story (movie)

Dan Carruthers

#6. Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.

Marianne Williamson

#7. Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going.

Ayya Khema

#8. Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time.

Janet Fitch

#9. The anxiety was like poison ivy. It took nothing to set off that mental itch-a chance remark, remembering an event from the day before-but once it started I found it impossible to stop the cycle. My thoughts twisted in a circle, my pulse hammered, I couldn't concentrate.

Tracy Thompson

#10. She closed her eyes for a moment, remembering how it had felt to see Sir Gerek appear, reaching down and pulling her up. She sighed deeply. His arms were so strong and comforting around her, holding her tight against his broad chest. She drew in a hiccupped breath, a cross between a laugh and a sob.

Melanie Dickerson

#11. Harriet laughed, remembering suddenly that a novelist owes a duty to her newspaper reporters.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#12. We can't remember things from our future; remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. beneath the stars that drift; she sighed and said
"Every tale of a love
can only be a tale of ghosts that linger
in these spaces we
can never hold," - as the wind
gave echo

John Daniel Thieme

#14. I am one of those irritating people, who hang on to the door-knob after they say good-bye, and will neither come back nor go, always remembering something else which must be said ...

Nellie L. McClung

#15. It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.

George Santayana

#16. Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Laurence J. Peter

#17. Only you have to keep practicing and remembering.

Frederik Pohl

#18. She felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease, so carelessly safe

Stephen King

#19. Remembering the sound of metal clanging against wet tar sent chills up my spine. Car crashes always seemed like they couldn't happen to normal people, like me and Kona. But now I know that death can happen to anyone.

Jessica Mitchell

#20. I'm so happy for the both of you. Savor this moment. Remembering this feeling, because it won't always be like this. You'll have ups, you'll have downs. You'll drive each other crazy. But it's worth it if you stick through it. - Gavin

S.C. Stephens

#21. I've known you forever, and you are only just remembering me.

Poppet

#22. Remembering the past should help you create a purposeful future, not cause you to be afraid of it.

Bill Crawford

#23. But then comes a time when forgetting isn't possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount of dreaming, not then and maybe not ever, can change how naked and unimportant we become in our own eyes.

Stig Dagerman

#24. If you're anxious about the state of the world, that's understandable. But trade your anxiety for the blessing of hearing the words of Scripture, keeping them in faith and obedience, and remembering the time is near.

David Jeremiah

#25. So this world, I think, and an indefinite number of other worlds of our creation, are also - we're here for fun; we're here for learning; we're here for remembering who we are, and who we are, are expressions of life so absolutely linked with the life that is, always was, always will be.

Richard Bach

#26. Well, memory can play tricks. Most people, I think, tend to remember the good rather than the bad when someone close to them dies.

Soheir Khashoggi

#27. Vor stared for a moment at his own reflection in the familiar mirrored face, remembering some of the stupid jokes his friend had told and the innovative military games they had played together. Seurat had never harmed him in any way.

Brian Herbert

#28. No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.

Lou Holtz

#29. As well as remembering too little, I have seen too much

Rosie Thomas

#30. Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Amy Lowell

#31. Remembering what you want about the past, even if it's not entirely true, keeps you from giving up on the present.

Susan Meissner

#32. We cry in our own rooms, remembering a man who will never be here again.The house creaks. Maybe it feels the weight of our grief, maybe the floorboards are buckling because the burden is too heavy.

Rochelle Maya Callen

#33. We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.

John Green

#34. That night I lay in bed, remembering the moment when her hand touched mine. I wondered what it would be like to have her touch me not by accident, to maybe have her let me touch her.

Alex Flinn

#35. First, there is a cue, a trigger that tells your brain to go into automatic mode and which habit to use. Then there is the routine, which can be physical or mental or emotional. Finally, there is a reward, which helps your brain figure out if this particular loop is worth remembering for the future:

Charles Duhigg

#36. When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.

Leslie Fiedler

#37. We are nothing more than our stories and who we love. What we pass on, how we exist ... it's having people remember who we are. We're terrible at that in this world. At remembering. At passing it on.

Carrie Ryan

#38. Which was better: being alive (if that was the right word) but not remembering anything, or being dead?

Laurie Halse Anderson

#39. even in death, his last breath was poetry
existing in the wind
and on the breeze of
"it used to be likes"
forever remembering,
yet never reliving
his life
will never be what it used to be like.

N'Zuri Za Austin

#40. And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever.

Tim O'Brien

#41. Very few stories embody a human truth so definitively that we cannot think of the truth without remembering the story and cannot imagine how people ever got by without it.

Michel Faber

#42. Remembering the Life that Changed the Future

Anonymous

#43. Most of the time I'm thinking of you
All of the time I love you
Remembering the good times and the bad
So much as
Happened and
Maybe I'm loving too fast
All I know is I ...
Love you. And want to
Live with you
Only you
Will you be my wife?

Monica Murphy

#44. There's all that brain work involved, remembering all those lines in a script. I find I have to eat a lot of fish, late - but not too late - in the afternoon. Doing theatre, you need to be like an athlete in training.

Jerry Hall

#45. We start our sometimes tedious, sometimes exciting, often times sad and stressful march to the grave the moment we're born, so it might as well be a march worth remembering.

Donna Lynn Hope

#46. We can best understand the furies of war and politics by remembering that almost the whole of each party believes absolutely in its picture of the opposition, that it takes as fact, not what is, but what it supposes to be the fact.

Walter Lippmann

#47. The breath of song in your remembering eyes cascades fragile reflections of time-steeped sunsets tinting delicate snowflakes with the solitude of a sleeping forest where ancient secrets lie waiting, undisturbed by knowing, tranquil in the forgetfulness of yesterday's silvery silence

Sean Terrence Best

#48. When it comes to our children, we do not have the luxury of despair. If we rise, they will rise with us every time, no matter how many times we've fallen before. I hope you will remember that the next time you fail ... Remembering that is the most important work as parents we can possibly do.

Cheryl Strayed

#49. It seemed my self defense skills had that effect on people, I thought, remembering when I threw Halette over my shoulder in Paris, twice.

Elle Klass

#50. I squinted. "What's that on your hand, Barrons? Blood?" He started, glanced at me, then at his hand. "Ah yes," he said, as if remembering, "I was out for a walk. There was a badly injured dog in the street. I returned it to its owner's shop to die.

Karen Marie Moning

#51. Sometimes, to overcome a hurdle before us, we don't need to search for new truth or understanding of God so much as we need to live out what we already know.

Amy Layne Litzelman

#52. I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise.

Padma Lakshmi

#53. Only for today, I will devote ten minutes of my time to some good reading, remembering that just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul

Pope John XXII

#54. Remembering is the opposite of being here now; it's being there now.

Merrit Malloy

#55. You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?'
'Yeah. But you remember some things, don't you?'
'Yeah. You remember the things you want to forget and forget the things you want to remember.

Cormac McCarthy

#56. I often find myself grateful for the comfort of strangers; a man who gave up his seat for me on the bus, a woman who helped me out with a heavy shopping bag. Remembering small acts of kindness puts the world in a finer, sweeter order.

Sally Brampton

#57. Remembering lies is a full-time job, one best to quit.

Rich DiSilvio

#58. Has he been with a woman yet?" he asked remembering the girl at the barn.
She shot him an angry glance."Is that all you think about? Of course he hasn't.He is only eleven."
"Nothing wrong with a boy starting early. I did."
"And look how well you've turned out.

Angelo Tsanatelis

#59. Trying to forget is an everlasting act of remembering

Roberto Muniz Dias

#60. Perhaps we really are surrounded by the past, made prisoners of it. No matter how far we travel, how hard we try to forget, the scarred tree forever stands by the side of the road, if only in our minds. The only way to drive by is to set the past straight, once and for all, by remembering.

Michael Paterniti

#61. It is only by remembering that 'Another lives in me' that we can die daily to that old, false, usurping self, and that we can continue to be drawn further in and higher up into the life of God. To 'practice the presence' is to continually call to mind this great reality.

Leanne Payne

#62. Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated.

Kofi Annan

#63. Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything," he said, "but then again, if I had been sober the times probably wouldn't have been worth remembering.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#64. (Always remembering, that our strength is continental, not provincial

Thomas Paine

#65. And I'll look back at him because I shan't be able to help it, remembering about being young, and about being made love to and making love, about pain and dancing and not being afraid of death, about all music I've ever loved, and every time I've been happy.

Jean Rhys

#66. Following Alyssa, they all walked over to the green clearing in front of the mess hall. It was where they'd held most of the all-camp activities, like games. Jenna sighed, remembering all the good times she'd had there---the gossip, the giggles, the crazy conversations.

Melissa J. Morgan

#67. There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.

Bill Pullman

#68. Then come at once and pause for breath
In chasing wealth. Remembering death
And death's dark fires, mix, while you may,
Method and madness, work and play.
Folly is sweet, well-timed.

Horace

#69. Do you think you can wait - because I don't want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don't want to hurt you ... not ever ...

Judy Blume

#70. He shrugged those broad shoulders, drawing her gaze to them. She couldn't help but undress him with her eyes, remembering every hot inch of his naked body. Unfortunately he knew what she was doing.
"All you have to do is ask and I'll take my clothes off.

Katie Reus

#71. live in the moment and make it so beautifulthat it will be woth remembering

Fanny Crosby

#72. And after we have shown each other how we have set and kept the clear, healthy boundaries that help us live side by side with each other, let us risk remembering that we never stop silently loving those we once loved out loud.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

#73. Forget the names because names lie but remember me because when you look at me I remember myself.

Remember me because I will never forget you.

Jordan Weisman

#74. She'd not known grief would come in waves, brought on by the smallest of things. Nor had she realized that ordinary acts of living would continue even after the loss of a love and that it would remain possible to get caught up in the moment of a simple pleasure before remembering.

Tess Thompson

#75. It's like going back to being a child again. Someone to bathe you. Someone to lift you. Someone to wipe you. We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, It's just remembering how to enjoy it.

Mitch Albom

#76. There is no possibility of remembering what has been found and understood, and later repeating it to oneself. It disappears as a dream disappears. Perhaps it is all nothing but a dream.

P.D. Ouspensky

#77. Ian Fleming was my cousin, and he wanted me to play Dr. No, but by the time he got around to remembering to tell the producers, they'd already cast someone else. Spilt milk!

Christopher Lee

#78. I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human.

Sue Hubbell

#79. I wasn't merely remembering, it seemed to be trapped inside my eyelids.

Dodie Smith

#80. Psychologists figured that the memory center was located in the left brain, and the imagination engine in the right brain. Therefore people unconsciously glanced to the left when they were remembering things, and to the right when they were making stuff up. When

Lee Child

#81. There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

Jacqueline Woodson

#82. I'd have never thought that remembering would bring with it far more trouble than forgetting.

Lorraine Heath

#83. Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hunted your ancestors in a past so ancient only your most primitive cells remember. The ears see. The nostrils see.

Frank Herbert

#84. If you remember yourself, you will remember me. I am always a part of you. I am your mother.

Emma Michaels

#85. Forgetting is not easy, but remembering is worse.

Nurilla Iryani

#86. Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.

Max Anders

#87. Just remembering what you did in previous lives doesn't mean a thing. It's nice to remember that you had higher states of mind, but that won't necessarily get you there. It might even make things painful.

Frederick Lenz

#88. There has never yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Theodore Roosevelt

#89. I asked once why we kept it if it was useless, and she told me that remembering the past is never useless.

Gennifer Albin

#90. Remembering is not enough, if it simply hardens hate. Sometimes the hating has to stop.

Eric Lomax

#91. I love art that haunts me, that stays with me, that is left embedded in my mind. I don't really think there is any use for owning or collecting art; it is more about remembering and preserving it in the minds eye and allowing it into your cultural DNA.

Doug Aitken

#92. We're remembering each other's heroes, too. We are learning each other's songs. We are reminding ourselves that we are a global family praying together. We're all trying to live in the light of the history that shines through the biblical narrative.

Shane Claiborne

#93. Do something worth remembering.

Elvis Presley

#94. This is what makes me happy: Remembering where I put my house keys ...

Art Buchwald

#95. He was cold and wet, but somehow he barely felt it. He kept remembering Rose snuggled against his chest, the feel of her body in his arms. He closed his eyes as he recalled the way she had looked at him, the way she said I love you.

Melanie Dickerson

#96. Love isn't just worth remembering and saving. True love is what saves us all.

Vicki Pettersson

#97. Nothing ever dies that's worth remembering.

Kate Seredy

#98. brought them along nevertheless, remembering the old line, it was better to have and not need, than need and not have. Gus shook his head once,

Keith C. Blackmore

#99. They were a delicious bunch but always forgetting the sensible things like food and daylight and remembering only the more intoxicating ones like love and gin.

Rachel Joyce

#100. Friendship consists in forgetting; what one gives, and remembering what one receives.

Alexandre Dumas