There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.
Nicholas SparksThe timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Kahlil GibranOur consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience.
Alan WattsPast and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.
Paulo CoelhoMemories, imagination, old sentiments and associations, are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
Oliver Wendell HolmesConflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity and sets us at noting and contriving.
John Dewey