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It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?

— Kevin McCloud

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✓Similar Perspectives

If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.

— Joshua Foer

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

— Isabella Rossellini

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

— Jean Anouilh

I have a lot of great memories, but I can't imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.

— Rob Lowe

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

— Christopher Lasch

I've got a history in my life of difficult times.

— James Nesbitt

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

— Alfred de Vigny

There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.

— James Sanborn

✗Opposing Perspectives

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

— Bob Hope

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

— Mattie Stepanek