"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace." Chuck Palahniuk

"Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived" Helen Keller

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

"There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering." Theodore Roosevelt

"Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting." Unknown

"We collect data, things, people, ideas, profound experiences, never penetrating any of them... But there are other times. There are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper." James Carroll

"Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control." Cyril Connolly, critic and editor (1903-1974)

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." George Bernard Shaw

"Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy." Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember." Oscar Levant

"Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes." Carl Sandburg

"I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget." William Phelps

"Nothing is as new as something which has long been forgotten." Proverb

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." Mark Twain

"May you never forget what is worth remembering and never remember what is best forgotten."  Anonymous

"Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before." Steven Wright, comedian (b. 1955)

"Nothing lasts forever except the memories and stories we can pass down to the next generation." Jackie Starr

"Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence." Sholem Asch (1880 - 1957)

“Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.” Hal Boyle

“There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever." Lord Chesterfield, statesman and writer (1694-1773)

“So this is what’s left behind, these things that end up as our real inheritance -- the flotsam and jetsam of life, the stuff that drifts into our hands and into history, the chance impression, the little shadow each of us casts, the fragile thing someone carefully catalogues and cares for and then forgets or maybe doesn’t, the image of an image that conjures a memory that is either real or imagined – these are here, plucked and pressed between the pages, so they will stay fresh forever, or forever slip away.” Susan Orlean, Shadow Memory

“The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.” Elizabeth Bowen, novelist (1899-1973

“Memory is the exercise against loss.” Ruth Stone

“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.” Confucious

“The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.” Elizabeth Bowen, novelist (1899-1973)

“Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.” Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)

“The true art of memory is the art of attention.” Anonymous