33 Cute Memory Quotes To Help You Be in the Moment

It’s important to make memories, but even more important to stay present in the moment and enjoy life as it’s happening. These memory quotes show you why being present in the secret sauce to true joy and memories that last a lifetime.

Memory Quotes

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers.” – Rachel Vincent

“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.” – Kazuo Ishiguro

“Good memories are most often created without conscious effort. These are the memories that result from those unselfish acts or behaviors that give of our time, talents or gifts without any due regard for repayment.” – Byron R. Pulsifer

“People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn’t.” – Christopher Paolini

“Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.” – Stephenie Meyer

“Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.” – Jean de Boufflers

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain

“The amazing power of pictures to stay in the memory is well documented.” – Graham Shaw

“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.” – Michel de Montaigne

“Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.” – Henry Theodore Tuckerman

“Memory is a record of your personal experience. It is a record of trial and error, defeat and success. Past failures will warn you against repeating them.” – Wilfred Peterson

“With a strong, healthy memory, you can overcome mental barriers to achieve success in your personal, professional, and academic life. Without it, you will find yourself struggling at every turn.” – John Parker

“Enjoy good memories. But don’t spend your remaining days here looking back, wishing for the good old days.” – Randy Alcorn

“The more hooks an idea has, the better it will cling to memory.” – Chip Heath

“Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.” – Steven Wright

“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” – Toni Morrison

“You may not think you have a good memory, but you remember what’s important to you.” – Rick Warren

“There are memories that time does not erase… Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.” – Cassandra Clare

“Those moments you fail are not the end, they are periods in which you recollect thoughts, ideas, and ambitions, and change direction.” – Benjamin Chapin

“You never know when you’re making a memory.” – Rickie Lee Jones

“We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.” – Umberto Eco

“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.” – Shannon L. Alder

“Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.” – Dr. Seuss

“What we call memories are really present thoughts. What we call anticipations are really present thoughts. No one has ever lived in any moment except the present.” – Emmet Fox

“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” – Rita Mae Brown

“Your self is created by your memories, and your memories are created by your mental habits.” – Rick Warren

“Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” – Haruki Murakami

“Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.” – Leonardo da Vinci