Cherished Moments: A Collection of Inspirational Quotes About Memories

"It’s never too late to have a happy childhood."

- Tom Robbins

"Sweet is the memory of distant friends. Like the mellow rays departing the sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart."

- Washington Irving

"A good life is a collection of happy memories."

- Dennis Waitley

"Memories, the one thing that can never be taken away from us. Make lots of them!"

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."

- Willa Cather

"Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart."

- Haruki Murakami

"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

"My family legacy is mainly memories, so I especially cherish my few tangible mementos."

- Maureen Killoran

"Of all that I have possessed in my life, my memories are the only things remaining to me. Indeed, I believe that memories are the only real treasure any human can hope to hold always."

- Gary Jennings

"When you are gone, the only truly important thing you will leave behind are the memories you’ve created. How do you want to be remembered?"

- Michael Hyatt

"We do not remember days, we remember moments."

- Cesare Pavese

"What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life — to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?"

- George Eliot

"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

"Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them."

- Bob Dylan

"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory."

- Dr. Seuss

"Memories were the markers of the journey through life. It was necessary to know where you had come from. Only then could you know where you were going."

- William Shatner

"How do you want to be remembered?"

- Michael Hyatt

"The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared."

- Lois Lowry

"There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable."

- Cassandra Clare

"Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future."

- Desmond Tutu

"Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us."

- Oscar Wilde

"Memories of our lives, our weeks, and our deeds will continue in others."

- Rosa Parks

"Memories are created by what we do, not by what we think."

- Byron Pulsifer

"When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old."

- Bill Clinton

"Life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory."

- Leonard Nimoy

"Remembering is easy. It’s forgetting that it's hard."

- Brodi Ashton

"Yesterday is but today’s memory, tomorrow is today’s dream."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Our memory is like a shop in the window of which there is now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen."

- Marcel Proust

"Creating memories is a priceless gift. Memories will last a lifetime; things only a short-period of time."

- Alyice Edrich

"Our memories are the only paradise from which we can never be expelled."

- Jean Paul Richter

"The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have."

- Robert Brault

"For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever."

- Laura Swenson

"Time moves in one direction, memory in another."

- William Gibson

"The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good."

- Gabriel García Márquez

"Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it."

- L.M. Montgomery

"Memories are the architecture of our identity."

- Daniel Kahneman

"The next best thing to the enjoyment of a good time is the recollection of it."

- James Lendall Basford

"The town was paper, but the memories were not."

- John Green

"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

"We must use time wisely for our development and advancement; so that when we are old, we can look back and recollect the pleasant memories and deeds that we have achieved."

- Michael Lee

"Memories are not just about the past. They determine our future."

- Jeff Bridges

"The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you."

- Rodman Philbrick

"You can never be really happy if you keep holding to those bad memories which makes you sad."

- Anurag Prakash Ray

"Memories are the diary we all carry with us."

- Oscar Wilde

"You never know when you’re making a memory."

- Rickie Lee Jones

"A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen."

- Edward de Bono

"Memories are like a garden. Regularly tend the pleasant blossoms and remove the invasive weeds."

- Linda Fifer Ralphs

"Your self is created by your memories and your memories are created by your mental habits."

- Rick Warren

"Memory is a complicated thing, relative to truth, but not its twin."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories."

- Haruki Murakami

"Memories are the key not to the past but to the future."

- Corrie Ten Boom

"Sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory."

- Dr. Seuss

"Memory is the mother of all wisdom."

- Aeschylus

"Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven."

- Jean Paul

"Memory is the scribe of the soul."

- Aristotle

"I guess sometimes the greatest memories are made in the most unlikely of places, further proof that spontaneity is more rewarding than a meticulously planned life."

- J.A. Redmerski

"I would like to encourage you to set traditions for your family as well as your home. Making traditions is making memories."

- Robin Redmon Dreyer

"Many incidents of those early years are fixed in my memory, isolated, but clear and distinct, making the sense of that silent, aimless, dayless life all the more intense."

- Helen Keller

"If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard. And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart."

- Ranata Suzuki

"I try to keep the happy memories. If that’s what you call selective memories, I’m good with that."

- Nicole Williams

"Your memories are your jewels!"

- Julie Butler

"Memory…like an old musical box it will lie silent for long years; then a mere nothing, a jerk, a tremor, will start the spring, and from beneath its decent covering of dust it will talk to us of forgotten passion and desire."

- Thomas Burke

"Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading."

- Kazuo Ishiguro

"The finest memories are those where we have helped someone without expecting anything in return."

- Byron Pulsifer

"In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded."

- Harry Connick Jr.

"Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door."

- Saul Bellow

"Be careful who you make memories with. Those things can last a lifetime."

- Ugo Eze

"Love poems are little bits of memory and story that remind and shape us back into the experience of love."

- Tito Tinajero

"I have memories – but only a fool stores his past in the future."

- David Gerrold

"The past beats inside me like a second heart."

- John Banville

"Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart."

- Thomas Fuller

"Memories shared serve each one differently."

- Robert Evans

"Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you."

- Takayuki Ikkaku

"Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own."

- Stephen King

"Memory is the treasure of the mind."

- English Proverb

"Memories…no two sets exactly the same, like fingerprints."

- Daphne Merkin

"Observation is an old man’s memory."

- Jonathan Swift

"Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today."

- Gloria Gaither

"A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Memories are like antiques, the older they are the more valuable they became."

- Marinela Reka

"Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved."

- Thomas Fuller

"Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing."

- Jennifer L. Armentrout

"Let us not burthen our remembrance with a heaviness that's gone."

- William Shakespeare

"If we can’t make memories, we can’t heal."

- Leonard Shelby

"Unless we remember we cannot understand."

- E. M. Forster

"Every man’s memory is his private literature."

- Aldous Huxley

"You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened."

- John Green

"Memory is a rare ghost-raiser. Like a haunted house, its walls are ever echoing to unseen feet."

- Jerome K. Jerome

"The more often you share what you’ve learned, the stronger that information will become in your memory."

- Steve

"There is nothing like an odor to stir memories."

- William McFee

"Feelings are memories. Memories are also feelings."

- Margaret Stohl

"The memory of happiness makes misery woeful."

- Roman Proverb

"It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid."

- Ugo Betti

"That’s the thing about memories, you can’t forget them."

- Lex Luthor

"Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food."

- Austin O’Malley

"I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me."

- Noël Coward

"Memories are created by what we do not by what we think."

- Byron Pulsifer

"Maybe memories should be left the way they are."

- Melina Marchetta

"Here’s a basic memory rule: You Can Remember Any New Piece of Information if It Is Associated to Something You Already Know or Remember."

- Harry Lorayne

"Memories are good, as long as we keep them in the rearview mirror and keep moving."

- Unknown

"Life is a collection of moments, make them count."

"The beautiful thing about memories is that they are yours; whether they are good, bad, or indifferent. They belong to you, and no matter where you are now."

- Unknown

"The most important moments are the ones that make you feel alive."

"When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure."

"Memories are not created from things you said you would do. They are built from things you have done."