Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a bar of soap.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.
If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.
Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.
Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
Memories are doing funny things to us.
Memories are the best things in life, I think.
You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.
My memories are inside me - they're not things or a place - I can take them anywhere.
Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.