{"quotes":[{"text":"We are often given pills or fluids to help remedy illness, yet little has been taught to us about the power of smell to do the exact same thing. It is known that the scent of fresh rosemary increases memory, but this cure for memory loss is not divulged by doctors to help the elderly. I also know that the most effective use of the blue lotus flower is not from its dilution with wine or tea – but from its scent. To really maximize the positive effects of the blue lily (or the pink lotus), it must be sniffed within minutes of plucking. This is why it is frequently shown being sniffed by my ancient ancestors on the walls of temples and on papyrus. Even countries across the Orient share the same imagery. The sacred lotus not only creates a relaxing sensation of euphoria, and increases vibrations of the heart, but also triggers genetic memory - and good memory with an awakened heart ushers wisdom.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["ailment","ancient-egyptians","ancient-medicine","awakened","awakened-heart","blue-lily","cure","cures","doctors","east","egypt","egyptians","elderly","enlightenment","euphoria","flower","flowers","fluids","genetic-memory","genetics","health","healthcare","heart","illness","illnesses","imagery-sacred","increaes-memory","lily","lotus","lotus-flower","medicine","memory","memory-loss","metaphysics","orient","papyrus","philosophy","physicians","pills","power","power-of-scent","power-of-smell","remedy","rosemary","sacred-lotus","scent","scripture","smell","smelling","tea","temples","tombs","treatment","vibrations","wine","wisdom"],"id":3575,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["annoying-habits","attachment","bad-relationships","betrayal","bickering","boredom","boyfriend","cheating","competition","day-dreams","death","denial","desires","disappointments","divorce","drama","drama-seeking","dreams","ego","failures","false-memories","family","fantasy","fights","flirtation","funerals","girlfriend","how-it-was","incompatability","insecurity","jealousy","lies","marriage","marriage-difficulties","memories","memory-loss","nostalgia","obsession","personality","pictures","pride","real-life","sentimental","silence","stimulus-seeking","the-past","treachery","vacations"],"id":11803,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.","author":"Joshua Foer","tags":["human-relationships","memory","memory-loss"],"id":25988,"author_id":"Joshua+Foer"},{"text":"Heaven left a hole in your heart. But it’s up to you to choose if that hole will be filled with pain, anger, and the eternal darkness of loss . . .\tOr if you will choose to fill it with light and love and have that hole shine out of you like a spotlight into your life, keeping their memory alive . . .{It’s up to you.}.","author":"Tessa Shaffer","tags":["anger","courage","grief-and-loss","grief-inspirational","grieving-loss","heaven","heaven-has-no-regrets","heaven","inspirational-life","inspirational-love","inspirational","loss","memorial","memory-loss","no-regrets","pain","remembering-loved-ones"],"id":36920,"author_id":"Tessa+Shaffer"},{"text":"Her ability to use language, that thing that most separates humans from animals, was leaving her, and she was feeling less and less human as it departed. She's said a tearful good-bye to okay some time ago.","author":"Lisa Genova","tags":["alzheimer-s-disease","dementia","language","memory-loss"],"id":37097,"author_id":"Lisa+Genova"},{"text":"Feeling this way was a particular kind of horror, having the emotions without the memories.","author":"Cassandra Clare","tags":["emotions","memory-loss","simon-lewis"],"id":43620,"author_id":"Cassandra+Clare"},{"text":"I am constantly mystified by what John ends up remembering… I just don’t understand why he’s able to hang on to information like that, while so many other more important memories evaporate. Then again, I suppose so much of what stays with us is often insignificant. The memories we take to the ends of our lives have no real rhyme or reason, especially when you think of the endless things that you do over the course of a day, a week, a month, a year, a lifetime. All the cups of coffee, hand-washings, changes of clothes, lunches, goings to the bathroom, headaches, naps, walks to school, trips to the grocery store, conversations about the weather—all the things so unimportant they should be immediately forgotten. Yet they aren’t. I often think of the Chinese red bathrobe I had when I was twenty-seven years old; the sound of our first cat Charlie’s feet on the linoleum of our old house; the hot rarefied air around aluminum pot the moment before the kernels of popcorn burst open. I think of these things as often as I think about getting married or giving birth or the end of the Second World War. What is truly amazing is that before you know it, sixty years go by and you can remember maybe eight or nine important events, along with a thousand meaningless ones. How can that be?You want to think there’s a pattern to it all because it makes you feel better, gives you some sense of a reason why we’re here, but there really isn’t any. People look for God in these patterns, these reasons, but only because they don’t know where else to look.Things happen to us: some of it important, most of it not, and a little of it stays with us till the end. What stays after that? I’ll be damned if I know.(pp.174-175).","author":"Michael Zadoorian","tags":["after-death","aging","end-of-life","end-of-life-musings","lifetime","meaningful-life","memories","memory","memory-loss","moments","ordinary-life","patterns","reason","time","time-passing"],"id":48060,"author_id":"Michael+Zadoorian"},{"text":"I am starting to think that maybe memories are like this dessert. I eat it, and it becomes a part of me, whether I remember it later or not.","author":"Erica Bauermeister","tags":["dessert","memories","memory-loss"],"id":51582,"author_id":"Erica+Bauermeister"},{"text":"A mind wanders, thoughts flee and memories fade. But tattoos, tattoos are forever. And if it is true to say that we carry ourselves with when we travel - then the body may very well be a beautiful canvas for the timeless lessons we learn and will learn when we travel.","author":"lauren klarfeld","tags":["body","body-image","life","life-lessons","life-lessons","life","life-wisdom","memory","memory-loss","memory","tattoo","tattoos","travel","travel","travel-tattoos","traveling","travelling"],"id":56167,"author_id":"lauren+klarfeld"},{"text":"The old me is sure making things difficult for the current me.","author":"Colleen Hoover","tags":["changing","irony","memory-loss","quote"],"id":89592,"author_id":"Colleen+Hoover"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":49,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}