70 Beautiful Memories Quotes That Are Heart Touching

Our memories are vital for our sense of self, personal development and decision-making.

They serve as the cornerstone of our life, weaving together a complex tapestry of events and lessons that create our character, beliefs and values.

Memories help to shape our self-concept, which is our knowledge of ourselves including our personality, abilities and duties in different circumstances.

Our recollections of prior events, accomplishments, and interactions with others assist us in developing a cohesive narrative of who we are and how we fit into the world.

Memories of past mistakes and accomplishments guide our decision-making, helping us to adapt and develop in a variety of areas of our life.


Best Memories Quotes (Heart Touching & Emotional)

1. “Let your memory be your travel bag.” ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

2. “People’s memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.” ~ Haruki Murakami

3. “Wherever you go, your memories from the place you grew up in always remain special.” ~ Guru Randhawa

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4. “The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.” ~ Debi Mazar

5. “Goodbye may seem like forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.” ~ Walt Disney

6. “But memory is an autumn leaf that murmurs a while in the wind and then is heard no more.” ~ Khalil Gibran

7. “A good life is a collection of happy memories.” ~ Denis Waitley.

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8. “Money can’t buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.” ~ Ronald Reagan

9. “Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.” ~ Neil Gaiman

11. “Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson.

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10. “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” ~ Douglas Ivester

12. “I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.” ~ Michel Foucault.

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Beautiful Memories Quotes

13. “The darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon for inspiration to remind us of the unrelenting human spirit and our capacity to overcome the intolerable.” ~ Vince Lombardi.

14. “But if you don’t have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up. But no matter how much money you make or how famous you become, you will still feel empty. What you are really searching for is unconditional love, unqualified acceptance. And that was the one thing that was denied to you at birth.” ~ Michael Jackson

15. “An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history – he is one who can accomplish things.” ~ Henry Ford

16. “I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.” ~ Stephen King

17. “Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.” ~ L.M. Montgomery

18. “It’s a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That’s where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.” ~ Stephen King

19. “Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory.” ~ Leo Tolstoy

20. “Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.” ~ Deepak Chopra

21. “My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.” ~ George Orwell.

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22. “Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don’t trust your memory.” ~ Jim Rohn

23. “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.” ~ Marcel Proust

Great Memories Quotes

24. “Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.” ~ Wendell Berry

25. “I don’t care if someone remembered me. Life is for living and memories for those who we leave behind.” ~ Jared Leto

26. “Time’s the thief of memory.” ~ Stephen King

27. “Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.” ~ Mitch Albom

28. “The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli

29. “Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.” ~ Brené Brown

30. “The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore

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31. “No one remembers who came in second.” ~ Walter Hagen

32. “His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

33. “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” ~ Og Mandino

34. “Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities.” ~ H.P. Lovecraft

35. “Your memory is a monster; it summons with will of its own. You think you have a memory, but it has you.” ~ John Irving

Lovely Memories Quotes

36. “Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.” ~ Steven Wright

37. “This is how memories are made… by going with the flow.” ~ Amanda Bynes

38. “Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It’s conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it’s a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.” ~ Deepak Chopra

39. “The memories we make with our family is everything.” ~ Candace Cameron Bure

40. “Most of my memories are the sound of rain on caravan roofs.” ~ Kelly Macdonald

41. “The one thing I need to leave behind is good memories.” ~ Michael Landon

42. “You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.” ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec.

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43. “The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.” ~ Cesare Pavese

44. “It was an opportunity to honour our memories and to make room for new ones.” ~ Jilly Pretzel

45. “So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.” ~ Helen Keller

46. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” ~ Elisabeth Foley

47. “Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It’s all about the memories.” ~ Buddy Valastro

48. “Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.” ~ Desmond Tutu

49. “As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.” ~ Henry David Thoreau.

Famous Memories Quotes

50. “Your memory is the glue that binds your life together, everything you are today is because of your amazing memory.” ~ Kevin Horsley

51. “Never spend your fortune on the tangibles but on experiences and intangible moments that will someday become memories.” ~ Jeremiah Say

52. “Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And the best people give you memories.” ~ Zig Ziglar.

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53. “Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.” ~ Bob Dylan

54. “A million feelings. A thousand thoughts. A hundred memories. All for one person.” ~ Lil Wayne

55. “It’s sad when someone can walk right by you and pretend you were never a big part of their life.” ~ Jessica Butil

56. “Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.” ~ Ugo Betti

57. “There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.” ~ Irwin Shaw

58. “Repetition doesn’t create memories. New experiences do.” ~ Brian Chesky

59. “I have a lot of great memories, but I can’t imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.” ~ Rob Lowe

60. “I love having my ghosts, and I love having my memories.” ~ Debbie Reynolds

61. “I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.” ~ Charles Baudelaire.

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62. “Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.” ~ Saul Bellow.

Top Memories Quotes

63. “Anything that triggers good memories can’t be all bad.” ~ Adam West

64. “A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.” ~ Raul Julia

65. “Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that’s what you’re left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.” ~ Mike Mills

66. “I have memories – but only a fool stores his past in the future.” ~ David Gerrold

67. “A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.” ~ Charles M. Schulz

68. “Some of my memories will never return. They are lost – along with the crippling feeling of defeat and hopelessness. Not a tremendous price to pay.” ~ Carrie Fisher

69. “Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.” ~ Oscar Wilde

70. “Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.” ~ Thomas Fuller.



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