Book Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The folding or doubling is itself a Memory: the ‘absolute memory’ or the memory of the outside, beyond the brief memory inscribed in strata…

— Gilles Deleuze

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

— John Wooden

You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys.

— Gloria Grahame

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

— Neil Young

Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is constructed.

— Gerald Fischbach

Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions,…

— Ariel Dorfman

All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

— Henry Ford

“The fossil record is always there, whether or not you discover it. The brittle ghosts of the past. Memory is not like the surface…

— Jeanette Winterson

We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what was there.

— Daniel Pauly

Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Each life experience leaves a layer of memory like a deposit of sediment: things we’ve loved and moments of contentment we’ve cherished that when…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Normal people don't have to decide what's worth remembering. You are given a hierarchy, recurring characters, the help of repetition, of anticipation, the firm…

— David Levithan