Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Memory narrativises itself.
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out.
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.
Memory is the thing you forget with.
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!