Memories

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“...memories may be beautiful and yet, what’s too painful to remember, we simply choose to forget…”
This is part of the lyrics from the song ‘The Way We Were.’

In life, this is what we do with our memories that are too painful to remember. We simply choose to forget them. Wouldn’t it be great if we could just forget all the unpleasant memories, and keep the good ones?

Bad memories bring up a well of unpleasantness and sadness. I don’t want to go there. Good memories make me long for the good old days, and wonder where they have gone, and if there will be more of such good old days and times.

In any case good memories or bad, they are all in the past, and no amount of reminiscence will do any good. It is better to live in the present, in the moment. Time spent thinking of the past would be better spent thinking on how to improve your future. The future - that's where you will be living, not in the past.

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A man’s real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. - Alexander Smith

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape. - John Lancaster Spalding

Memories are the treasures that we keep locked deep within the storehouse of our souls, to keep our hearts warm when we are lonely. - Becky Aligada

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. - Michel de Montaigne

There is no pain as great as the memory of joy in present grief. - Aeschylus

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories. - Stanislaw Lec

If you remember the day’s blessings and forget the day’s troubles, then you have a good memory. - Unknown

Memory builds a pathway that goes winding through the heart and keeps friends close together even though they are far apart. - Unknown

Every man’s memory is his private literature. - Aldous Huxley

Memory is the personal journalism of the soul. - Richard Schickel

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