Energy Quote by John Matthews

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes…

— Rollo May

The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!

— Jane Austen

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

— Michel de Montaigne

For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places…

— Stefan Zweig

From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a whole nation…

— Jane Hamilton

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

— Guy de Maupassant

Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what…

— Neil Jordan

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

— Elie Wiesel

“Stuffing our memories might become familiar over the years, but it requires a mental vigilance that separates us from our inner world. It's building…

— Jeanne McElvaney

It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where…

— Natasha Trethewey

It seems to me, that this, too, is how memory works. What we remember of what was done to us shapes our view, molds…

— Rebecca Walker

With our technologies--ones of incalcuable power: earth-restoring, planet preserving--we can rediscover an intimacy, a mutuality with the natural world, that is not primitive (though…

— Janet Kauffman