The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between. So, properly speaking, we are always one… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
To one who has led a virtuous life, to sin is the easiest thing in the world. No experience of unpleasant consequences… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
It really is easy to forget the unpleasant if we simply refuse to recall it. Withdraw only positive thoughts from your memory… — David J. Schwartz Copy Share Image
It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own… — Wilson Flagg Copy Share Image
Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Success comes from having a fulfilling experience and being inside the moment of that experience. Success does not come in retrospect or… — Tommy Tune Copy Share Image
When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it… — Elizabeth Loftus Copy Share Image
The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved in youth. — Arsene Houssaye Copy Share Image
When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death. — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
It is also possible within this lifetime to enhance the power of the mind, enabling one to reaccess memories from previous lives.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror. — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness;… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You will never be able to have perfect interior peace and recollection unless you are detached even from the desire of peace… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson asked himself “In what country on earth would you rather live ” He first answered “Certainly in my own where… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I remember the day I started school; my mother's tears as I skipped away; birthdays with candles on the cake, too soon… — Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire Copy Share Image
All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The Holy Spirit does not speak to a soul that is distracted and garrulous. He speaks by His quiet inspirations to a… — Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
