I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.
Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.
How do you go about finding anything? By keeping your mind and heart on it. Interest there must be and steady remembrance. To remember what needs to be remembered is the secret of success. You come to it through earnestness
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything.
Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away.
Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.
To some extent, I have only lived to have something to outlive. By confiding these futile remembrances to paper, I am conscious of accomplishing the most important act of my life. I was predestined to Memory.
And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with no beginning or end, and would drown the speaker before he could reach the life raft of the point he was trying to make. It was impossible to remember what one meant, what, after all of the words, was intended.
and love was lightning and remembrance
There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman or casual straggler, and in another age to be lost, even to remembrance. Such is the amount of boasted immortality.
We cannot embrace His cross, and yet refuse our own. We cannot raise the cup of His remembrance to our lips, without a secret pledge to Him, to one another, to the great company of the faithful in every age that we, too, hold ourselves at God's disposal, that we will ask nothing on our own account, that we will pass simply into the Divine hand to take us whither it will.
It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.
All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.
Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like an impulse.
Remember that every guilty compliance with the humors of the world , every sinful indulgence of our own passions , is laying up cares and fears for the hour of darkness , and that the remembrance of ill-spent time will strew our sick bed with thorns and rack our sinking spirits with despair.
Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
If we choose to exercise faith, the Holy Ghost will bring God's kindnesses to our remembrance.
I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am in peace.