1. “Enjoy good memories. But don’t spend your remaining days here looking back, wishing for “the good old days.” ― Randy Alcorn
2. “There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.” ― Josh Billings
3. “Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.” ― Richard Kadrey
4. “A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.” ― Steven Wright
5. “Good memories are most often created without conscious effort. These are the memories that result from those unselfish acts or behaviors that give of our time, talents or gifts without any due regard for repayment.” ― Byron R. Pulsifer
6. “I could tell you it’s the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
7. “Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.” ― Saul Bellow
8. “Sometimes, the things you remember are more real than the things you see.” ― Arthur Golden
9. “There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.” ― Nicholas Sparks
10. “Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.” ― Thomas Fuller
11. “Remembering is easy. It’s forgetting that’s hard.” ― Brodi Ashton
12. “Every man’s memory is his private literature.” ― Aldous Huxley
13. “Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.” ― Nicholas Sparks
14. “When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.” ― Jodi Picoult
15. “Your self is created by your memories, and your memories are created by your mental habits.” ― Rick Warren
16. “Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.” ― Rosa Parks
17. “The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers.” ― Rachel Vincent
18. “Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.” ― Oscar Wilde
19. “Memory is a record of your personal experience. It is a record of trial and error, defeat and success. Past failures will warn you against repeating them.” ― Wilfred Peterson
20. “The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have.” ― Robert Brault
21. “Someone said that God gave us memories so that we might have roses in December.” ― J.M. Barrie
22. “Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.” ― L.M. Montgomery
23. “Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.” ― Shaun David Hutchinson
24. “Memories may fade as the years go by but they won’t age a day.” –Michelle C. Ustaszeski
25. “Sometimes a perfect memory can be ruined if put to words.” ― Nova Ren Suma
26. “People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.” ― Haruki Murakami
27. “That’s the problem with memories, you can visit them, but you can’t live in them.” ― Shaun David Hutchinson
28. “When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.” ― Sara Zarr
29. “Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.” ― Jennifer L. Armentrout
30. “I try to keep the happy memories. If that’s what you call selective memories, I’m good with that.” ― Nicole Williams
31. “Sometimes, remembering hurts too much.” ― Jess Rothenberg
32. “Allow yourself to smile just a tiny bit. Like revisiting a memory of happiness. Turn the corners of your mouth turn up a little and feel the muscles of your cheekbones slightly contracting.” ― Jenny Clift
33. “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” –Haruki Murakami
34. “Figure out how to be keen on it, make it fun and you will learn quicker, and recollect more.” ― Eimantas Gabalis
35. “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar”- Abraham Lincoln
36. “Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
37. “Humans, not places, make memories.” ― Ama Ata Aidoo
38. “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” ― Lois Lowry
39. “You can’t trust your memory, when you think of an idea write it down.” ― Joe Hinchliffe
40. “The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you.” ― Rodman Philbrick
41. “You may not think you have a good memory, but you remember what’s important to you.” ― Rick Warren
42. “When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old.” ― Bill Clinton
43. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” ― Mark Twain
44. “What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” ― Karl Lagerfeld
45. “Our memories give us voice and bear witness to history, so that others might learn. So they might celebrate our triumphs and be warned of our failures.” ― Mohinder Suresh
46. “Your memory is the glue that binds your life together; everything you are today is because of your amazing memory. You are a data collecting being, and your memory is where your life is lived.” ― Kevin Horsley
47. “We do not remember days; we remember moments.” ― Cesare Pavese
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