#memory

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#life

i like scars, they remind you of things ↗

— Nirrimi Joy Hakanson

#life #memory #pain #past #scars

It didn’t take tragedy or war to derail a man. It took only a memory. ↗

— Ali Shaw

#memory #tragedy #life

At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus on the energy flow (emotional states) and a verbal focus on the information-processing aspects (representational processes of memory and narrative) of mental life. The matter of the mind matters for secure attachments. ↗

— Daniel J. Siegel

#emotion #meaning #memory #neuropsychology #life

Sometimes Midas suspected that life was a film with subliminal messages. Things would move along with an acceptable degree of predictability, then be punctuated by some horrible childhood memory. ↗

— Ali Shaw

#life #memory #life

I make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interesting ↗

— Jude Morgan

#memory #life

Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it. ↗

— John Lahr

#love #memory #love

She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones. ↗

— Kim Edwards

#love #memory #age

A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense. ↗

— Joshua Foer

#memory #memory-loss #art

Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another." He spread his broad hands. "We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory. Who knows?" He smiles. "Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you. ↗

— Madeline Miller

#glory #heroes #memory #mythology #time