Quotes About Remembering

#1. When I am come to mine own again, I will always honor little children, remembering how that these trusted me and believed me in my time of trouble; whilst they that were older, and thought themselves wiser, mocked at me and held me for a liar.

Mark Twain

#2. Photography is just light remembering itself.

Jerry Uelsmann

#3. There are some things I guess we bury so we can get on with living. I don't think it's wrong, necessarily, just what we do to survive. It's the remembering part that's hard. Some people remember and some never have to. The blessed and the cursed.

Nicole A. Seitz

#4. I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.

Fred Allen

#5. After several hours, he realized he had been so lost in remembering and mourning the past, he had wasted two miles heading in the wrong direction.

Rachel Joyce

#6. It's hard to feel smart when you're always forgetting things, but Mama Shannon says that's how you can tell a smart person. They're too busy thinking about Big Ideas to worry about little details like tying their shoes or remembering their homework" -Fella

Sarah Dooley

#7. Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

Richard Bach

#8. Sometimes we live too much in the past,
remembering what we wished had happened.

Harley King

#9. In remembering those who lost their lives in the London attacks and the September 11th attacks we continue our commitment to fighting for freedom, democracy and justice.

Doc Hastings

#10. Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just
well
being sad.

Linda Lael Miller

#11. I urge you to stop remembering what God has forgotten.

Joyce Meyer

#12. I wasn't happy, exactly, but I was remembering how happiness felt.

Karen Joy Fowler

#13. Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don't commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing.

Osho

#14. Before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ...

John Geddes

#15. True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.

Charles Eisenstein

#16. Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.

Ann Brashares

#17. When he wore tight-fitting shirts, like he had today, I was having a harder and harder time remembering what kind of friends we were.

Tijan

#18. They say that when you remember something, you are really remembering the last time you remembered it. Each time you recollect a memory, you change it, ever so slightly, shading it with new information, new feelings.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#19. The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into our own experience.

Rollo May

#20. Remembering her words, Tony, you are mine and nobody else's, he acquiesced; he'd met his match.

Aleatha Romig

#21. I do remember,' explained Christopher Robin, 'only Pooh doesn't very well, so that's why he likes having it told to him again. Because then it's a real story and not just a remembering.

A.A. Milne

#22. More than all those people who starved by famine, it was the thought of my mother not remembering what she looked like as a little girl that saddened me.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#23. The question of what exactly we remember when we listen to old recordings, or whether it can be called remembering at all, becomes less and less answerable over a lifetime.

Geoffrey O'Brien

#24. Journaling is the difference between learning and remembering. It's also the difference between forgetting and fulfilling our goals.

Mark Batterson

#25. Grief should have been all-consuming. I hated myself that it wasn't. But sometimes I forgot. Jesus, how could I fucking forget? Sometimes I went for minutes without remembering my dad was dead, but that whole time it was regrouping so it could hit me all over again.

Lisa Henry

#26. Too often we make the mistake of remembering what we should forget-our hurts, failures and disappointments -and we forget what we should remember-our victories, accomplishments and the times we have made it through.

Joel Osteen

#27. Dizzied, thrilled, depressed by remembering ...

Roberto Bolano

#28. Powerful motivation for believing God in our present is intentionally remembering how He's worked in our past.

Beth Moore

#29. Even as I think these words for the first time, the me who is my future self is remembering me thinking these words for the first time.

J. Michael Straczynski

#30. Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.

Ally Condie

#31. Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.

Vasily Grossman

#32. The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

Soren Kierkegaard

#33. Forgetting isn't the key to moving on. Remembering is, because only once we've remembered can we forget.

Emma Hart

#34. Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Alan Bennett

#35. Somewhere in the future I am remembering today.

David Berman

#36. We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

George Santayana

#37. Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.

Marianne Williamson

#38. Then he put in a call for Nicole in Zurich, remembering so many things as he waited, and wishing he had always been as good as he had intended to be.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#39. Facebook revamped its search feature. Now you can search for any post that has ever appeared on your page. It's helpful if you want to waste time this year remembering exactly how you wasted time last year.

Conan O'Brien

#40. I was born to a black childhood of confusion and poverty. The memory of that beginning influences my work today, It is impossible now to photograph a hungry child without remembering the hunger of my old childhood.

Gordon Parks

#41. When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.

Ann Brashares

#42. But forgiveness ... I'll hold on to that fragile slice of hope and keep it close, remembering that in each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice.

Libba Bray

#43. Taking care of my parents is one of the things that I want to do, just give them some of the things that we never had a chance to have. It's all about remembering where I came fromt.

Reggie Bush

#44. Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now.

Frederick Dodson

#45. Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.

Clive Thompson

#46. He no longer saw distance in terms of miles. He measured it with his remembering

Rachel Joyce

#47. I keep remembering - I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.

Henri Barbusse

#48. We must let patience have its perfect work, remembering that there are precious promises in the Scriptures for those who wait upon the Lord.

Ellen G. White

#49. Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.

Steve Maraboli

#50. At birth, each of us is graced with the simple job of remembering, understanding, and living the essence of who we are.

Robert A. Giacalone

#51. The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#52. I am born connected. I am born remembering rivers flowing from my mother's body into my body.

Meinrad Craighead

#53. He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.

Terry Pratchett

#54. It's not forgetting we need, Vianne," he said, leaning down to kiss her. "It's remembering.

Kristin Hannah

#55. It seems that wishing and hoping and dreaming and remembering can be eve more helpful than knowing what's going to happen.

Melissa Senate

#56. to never have to look at someone who was remembering when you have made such a concerted effort to forget.

Ann Patchett

#57. But he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else - the cold and where he'd go in it - was outside, for a while anyway.

Raymond Carver

#58. No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by gay activists and their media partisans. I think what gay men are remembering is that they were born different.

Camille Paglia

#59. Gods forbid if she ever broke up with him. She'd never be able to visit the sea again without remembering her broken heart.
Annabeth about Percy

Rick Riordan

#60. I don't get why I need to prove my love to you by remembering the exact same things you do, the exact same way you do. It doesn't mean I don't love our life together.

Gillian Flynn

#61. Finding joy in the everyday is bliss, is miraculous, and is totally rediscoverable by each of us.
The main ingredient for bliss is releasing yesterdays and tomorrows, and remembering who we are now.

Kelly Corbet

#62. We gonna be a family again in Heaven. It takes some strong patience, but the Lord will come through. And as long as we here, we can get on living by never forgetting. Never forgetting and always remembering.

Andrew Galasetti

#63. Remembering the past is like watching a Hollywood movie, in that you never see the characters go to the toilet.

Steve Toltz

#64. I've had enough of these streets that sweat a cold, yellow slime, of hostile people, of crying myself to sleep every night. I've had enough of thinking, enough of remembering.

Jean Rhys

#65. No matter what you do if it isn't genuine it's not worth doing, if it isn't meant with good heart it's not worth saying, and if it's a darkness around you perhaps it's not worth remembering.

E.E.D. Horton

#66. After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.

Jimmy Carr

#67. Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

Gautama Buddha

#68. What I had really trained my brain to do, as much as to memorize, was to be more mindful, and to pay attention to the world around me. Remembering can only happen if you decide to take notice.

Joshua Foer

#69. Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside. -Gabe Singleton remembering his counselor's first advice-

Michael Palmer

#70. That's Australia. She's not dim-witted, she just has trouble remembering to be smart.

Brandon Sanderson

#71. In question-and-answer sessions after a reading or during an interview, I forget the question if I'm giving too long an answer. And at the end, I can't remember any of the questions. The more anxious I am about remembering, the more likely I am to forget.

Floyd Skloot

#72. Caring about the quality of your work causes stress. Stress can kill you. Maintain good health by remembering that the stockholders are complete strangers who have never done anything for you.

Scott Adams

#73. The difference between forgetting something and not remembering it is big enough to drive an eighteen-wheeler through.)

Laurie Halse Anderson

#74. Perhaps a supreme form of charity may be exhibited by one who withholds judgment of another's acts or conduct, remembering that there is only one who can look into the heart and know the intent-and know the honest desires found therein.

H. Burke Peterson

#75. I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to do it again sometime, and it'll probably not go as well.

Amy Hoggart

#76. The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been.

Laura Lippman

#77. I never realized that a child is capable of remembering so well and of waiting so patiently

Janusz Korczak

#78. For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more
remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as bad as their words.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#79. We enshrine things to memory very differently than we experience them in real time. The psychologist Daniel Kahneman has coined a couple of terms to make the distinction. He talks about the "experiencing self" versus the "remembering self.

Jennifer Senior

#80. ...and then Danny was moving on him in the rhythm they'd found so easily in the past, their bodies remembering the way of it as if they'd never been apart, as if they'd only been waiting to find each other again.

Brooke McKinley

#81. Most of us are responsible most of the time, or we would not have come this far, it is remembering to not tell the victim story when we are under pressure that makes you a leader.

Malti Bhojwani

#82. Remembering now all those farewells (fake farewells, worked-up farewells), Irena thinks: a person who messes up her goodbyes shouldn't expect much from her re-unions.

Milan Kundera

#83. At the end of life, at the end of YOUR life, what essence emerges? What have you filled the world with? In remembering you, what words will others choose?

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

#84. Before the New York Times starts running "Portraits in Grief" of former Enron employees, it's worth remembering that even after the collapse, Enron stock is still worth more than the entire Social Security "trust fund."

Ann Coulter

#85. Sounds of depression
remembering rejection
Hope turns to despair
black roses everywhere

Keep hearing echoes
voices in my mind
repeating endless lies
evil in disguise

Diana Rasmussen

#86. The key to success is letting the relationships in your life grow to the highest levels they possibly can ... not putting yourself first in life and remembering that the more you give away, the more you have.

Christopher Reeve

#87. Your spiritual path isn't always just something you find, you started it the moment you took your first breath, and ever since you're been getting closer and closer to remembering who you truly are!

Martin R. Lemieux

#88. Kill," the man said, stalking into the room and holding out his hand. A smirk spread his lips, remembering what he'd interrupted. "On second thought, perhaps I won't give you my hand. I don't know what you'll do with it.

Pepper Winters

#89. If you truly love someone, don't waste your time finding reasons to hate them. Spend it remembering why you love them in the first place.

Jinxx

#90. But this upland pass was the right place for remembering how, when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness underneath every soft appearance.

Nuala O'Faolain

#91. I often spend half the night with ghosts, remembering times fifty years past as if they were yesterday. The mystery of a midnight visitor is a welcome diversion.

George R R Martin

#92. Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.

Eckhart Tolle

#93. I'm convinced the storm's going to bust down the walls. Then it does and I'm remembering Dad's dream because it's happening.

Jandy Nelson

#94. You remember with what you are at the time you are remembering.

Doris Lessing

#95. The best computer programmers are much better than novices at remembering the overall structure of programs because they understand better what they're intended to do and how.

Geoff Colvin

#96. If you remember one thing, even above remembering me, remember that there is not a monster dreamt that hasn't walked withing the soul of man.

C. Robert Cargill

#97. Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

Jack Canfield

#98. Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

Paula Danziger

#99. Remembering our loved ones is breathing life into their fading images, that we might once more see their faces and pass along a tearful "I miss you.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#100. What is there to do when people die - people so dear and rare - but bring them back by remembering?

May Sarton