"Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds."

Memory, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational

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"Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds."

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"Maybe I have never had the Christmas I remember, since we never remember the event itself but just the last time we revisited the memory. I have woven together a few dozen scraps (the Sears catalog, my father videoing everything we did, Christmas parties and visits with Santa) and pretended they amount to one perfect, cohesive moment, but I am as guilty as baby-boomers, who dictated unconsciously that all the songs they listened to in 1963 would be the timeless Christmas standards of today."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Memory, Christmas, Nostalgia, Truth

"We can invent only with memory."

Alphonse Karr, French Critic

Memory,

"A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial."

Cliff Fadiman, American Author

Memory, Forget

"But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland."

Anselm Kiefer, German Artist

Memory,

"My life is an open book; at least this photo album."

R. Alan Woods, American Author

Memory, Life, Truth, Wisdom, Observation

"When our consciousness has become a haven of illusions, our mind may have a hard time to fight the maze in our thinking. Only anchor points from our past and the innocence of our childhood might give back the core of what we are. ['Not without the past']"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

Memory, Illusion, Mind, Past

"That was the danger. Not that betrayals happened, not that cruel things happened, but that they could outweigh all the good. That we could forget the good and only remember the bad."

Louise Penny, Canadian Author

Memory, Betrayal, Love, Pain

"Memory may be pig-headed and want us to follow its whims along the blips and dips of our time line. ['All the words he always wanted to tell her.']"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

Memory, Love, Time, Remembrance

"What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

Memory, Reality, Truth, Perception

"The most evocative life memories, which produced a synesthesia of emotions, consist of a host of small pleasures intertwined with the homespun stitches of love, affection, kindness, humility, and appreciation of nature."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Memory, Memories, Love, Affection, Kindness

Explore more quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough

"Once I finally understand the immensity of my own impoverishment, I am finally in a position to see the enormity of God's majesty."

Humility

"I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places."

Decision

"Doing life without God is not doing life."

Faith

"The 'gods' that do us the greatest harm are the gods we deny having."

Self

"In the deepest darkness God tenderly grasps my hand and whispers that darkness is nothing more than a place that He is preparing for the arrival of light."

Light

"Although I am far too frequently convinced otherwise, with God a dead-end is only the death of an end."

Hope

"If Christmas is a universally comprehensive and keenly clandestine rescue mission strategically crafted by God Himself eons before the rescue was necessary, it would naturally follow that if it is doomed to anything, it is doomed to incontestable success."

Christmas

"If life is nothing more than a journey to death, autumn makes sense but spring does not."

Truth

"If I am not at 'peace', then I can be altogether confident that I've placed a larger 'piece' of myself in the hands of someone other than God."

Peace

"Love in the service of self is greed in disguise."

Love