Souvenirs Inspirational Quotes

Closing The Cycle One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters - whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished. Did you lose your job? Has a loving relationship come to an end? Did you leave your parents' house? Gone to live abroad? Has a long-lasting friendship ended all of a sudden? You can spend a long time wondering why this has happened. You can tell yourself you won't take another step until you find out why certain things that were so important and so solid in your life have turned into dust, just like that. But such an attitude will be awfully stressing for everyone involved: your parents, your husband or wife, your friends, your children, your sister, everyone will be finishing chapters, turning over new leaves, getting on with life, and they will all feel bad seeing you at a standstill. None of us can be in the present and the past at the same time, not even when we try to understand the things that happen to us. What has passed will not return: we cannot for ever be children, late adolescents, sons that feel guilt or rancor towards our parents, lovers who day and night relive an affair with someone who has gone away and has not the least intention of coming back. Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. That is why it is so important (however painful it may be!) to destroy souvenirs, move, give lots of things away to orphanages, sell or donate the books you have at home. Everything in this visible world is a manifestation of the invisible world, of what is going on in our hearts - and getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place. Let things go. Release them. Detach yourself from them. Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood. Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over and over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else. Nothing is more dangerous than not accepting love relationships that are broken off, work that is promised but there is no starting date, decisions that are always put off waiting for the "ideal moment." Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished: tell yourself that what has passed will never come back. Remember that there was a time when you could live without that thing or that person - nothing is irreplaceable, a habit is not a need. This may sound so obvious, it may even be difficult, but it is very important. Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.

Le souvenir n'est qu'un regard posé de temps en temps sur des êtres devenus intérieurs,mais qui ne dépendent pas de la mémoire pour continuer d'exister.

The two of us, two lost keys of the different doors, once strangers and now a souvenir of pain.

Perhaps creativity’s greatest mercy is this: By completely absorbing our attention for a short and magical spell, it can relieve us temporarily from the dreadful burden of being who we are. Best of all, at the end of your creative adventure, you have a souvenir—something that you made, something to remind you forever of your brief but transformative encounter with inspiration

Writing poetry is a passion, ignited by thoughts, fueled by ink. A way to travel through another mind, where souvenirs of tears are tucked away inside your soul. Or leave you with smiles for miles, depending on which route you go.

Les souvenirs sont des îles qui flottent dans l’océan de l’oubli.

BlessBacks: Souvenirs for those who express their gratitude to their illuminators.

Se souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir.

some smart alecs of those days after World War I used to say: "The French fought for liberty, the British fought to control the seas, but the Americans fought for souvenirs.

The most beautiful things come from the hardest conditions.

The Loneliness of the Military Historian Confess: it's my profession that alarms you. This is why few people ask me to dinner, though Lord knows I don't go out of my way to be scary. I wear dresses of sensible cut and unalarming shades of beige, I smell of lavender and go to the hairdresser's: no prophetess mane of mine, complete with snakes, will frighten the youngsters. If I roll my eyes and mutter, if I clutch at my heart and scream in horror like a third-rate actress chewing up a mad scene, I do it in private and nobody sees but the bathroom mirror. In general I might agree with you: women should not contemplate war, should not weigh tactics impartially, or evade the word enemy, or view both sides and denounce nothing. Women should march for peace, or hand out white feathers to arouse bravery, spit themselves on bayonets to protect their babies, whose skulls will be split anyway, or,having been raped repeatedly, hang themselves with their own hair. There are the functions that inspire general comfort. That, and the knitting of socks for the troops and a sort of moral cheerleading. Also: mourning the dead. Sons,lovers and so forth. All the killed children. Instead of this, I tell what I hope will pass as truth. A blunt thing, not lovely. The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner, though I am good at what I do. My trade is courage and atrocities. I look at them and do not condemn. I write things down the way they happened, as near as can be remembered. I don't ask why, because it is mostly the same. Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win. In my dreams there is glamour. The Vikings leave their fields each year for a few months of killing and plunder, much as the boys go hunting. In real life they were farmers. The come back loaded with splendour. The Arabs ride against Crusaders with scimitars that could sever silk in the air. A swift cut to the horse's neck and a hunk of armour crashes down like a tower. Fire against metal. A poet might say: romance against banality. When awake, I know better. Despite the propaganda, there are no monsters, or none that could be finally buried. Finish one off, and circumstances and the radio create another. Believe me: whole armies have prayed fervently to God all night and meant it, and been slaughtered anyway. Brutality wins frequently, and large outcomes have turned on the invention of a mechanical device, viz. radar. True, valour sometimes counts for something, as at Thermopylae. Sometimes being right - though ultimate virtue, by agreed tradition, is decided by the winner. Sometimes men throw themselves on grenades and burst like paper bags of guts to save their comrades. I can admire that. But rats and cholera have won many wars. Those, and potatoes, or the absence of them. It's no use pinning all those medals across the chests of the dead. Impressive, but I know too much. Grand exploits merely depress me. In the interests of research I have walked on many battlefields that once were liquid with pulped men's bodies and spangled with exploded shells and splayed bone. All of them have been green again by the time I got there. Each has inspired a few good quotes in its day. Sad marble angels brood like hens over the grassy nests where nothing hatches. (The angels could just as well be described as vulgar or pitiless, depending on camera angle.) The word glory figures a lot on gateways. Of course I pick a flower or two from each, and press it in the hotel Bible for a souvenir. I'm just as human as you. But it's no use asking me for a final statement. As I say, I deal in tactics. Also statistics: for every year of peace there have been four hundred years of war.

Et [le petit prince] revint vers le renard : «Adieu, dit-il... - Adieu, dit le renard. Voici mon secret. Il est très simple : On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. - L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux», répéta le petit prince, afin de se souvenir.

By completely absorbing our attention for a short and magical spell, it can relieve us temporarily from the dreadful burden of being who we are. Best of all, at the end of your creative adventure, you have a souvenir—something that you made, something to remind you forever of your brief but transformative encounter with inspiration.

Once he was done, Bruce swept up the remaining clumps and placed them into the trash, which felt symbolic. I was ready for it to be hauled away. But when it came to the ponytail, I had second thoughts and couldn’t discard it. I took it inside, tucked it into a cloth bag, and hid it in a drawer. I remembered what Rhonda said during my orientation to chemo, “I’ve heard some women keep a lock of their hair as a keepsake,” which I thought was weird at the time, but now, like so many other things, it made sense. It’s a beautiful and cherished souvenir of the life I once had.

But the Scottish patron on tour took home with him from Italy much more than his cargo of paintings, sculptures and antique marbles, the tangible souvenirs of his excursion to the south. He took home as well a sophistication of taste and an appreciation of the virtues of classicism which only contact with the Mediterranean inheritance could impart. Only sixty years before the building of the pedimented façade of Duff House in Banff, with its urns and roof-line statuary more in keeping with a southern sky, the typical laird's house in Scotland was still inspired by an economy of display and a strength of fabric deriving from less settled times. The 18th century saw the transportation to Scotland of the idea of the Italian palace, and Hopetoun or Floors or Chatelherault owe their existence to this inspiration.

Possessing a creative mind, after all, is something like having a border collie for a pet: It needs to work, or else it will cause you an outrageous amount of trouble. Give your mind a job to do, or else it will find a job to do, and you might not like the job it invents (eating the couch, digging a hole through the living room floor, biting the mailman, etc.). It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case that if I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something (myself, a relationship, or my own peace of mind). I firmly believe that we all need to find something to do in our lives that stops us from eating the couch. Whether we make a profession out of it or not, we all need an activity that is beyond the mundane and that takes us out of our established and limiting roles in society (mother, employee, neighbor, brother, boss, etc.). We all need something that helps us to forget ourselves for a while—to momentarily forget our age, our gender, our socioeconomic background, our duties, our failures, and all that we have lost and screwed up. We need something that takes us so far out of ourselves that we forget to eat, forget to pee, forget to mow the lawn, forget to resent our enemies, forget to brood over our insecurities. Prayer can do that for us, community service can do it, sex can do it, exercise can do it, and substance abuse can most certainly do it (albeit with god-awful consequences)—but creative living can do it, too. Perhaps creativity’s greatest mercy is this: By completely absorbing our attention for a short and magical spell, it can relieve us temporarily from the dreadful burden of being who we are. Best of all, at the end of your creative adventure, you have a souvenir—something that you made, something to remind you forever of your brief but transformative encounter with inspiration.

Une odeur désagréable, qui me rappelle celle de l'hôpital, me chatouille les narines lorsque je reprends conscience. J'essaie d'ouvrir les yeux, mais je n'y arrive pas. J'entends alors la voix des infirmiers qui essaient de relancer mon cœur. Il bat pourtant, il bat si fort que je me demande comment ils peuvent le manquer. Les bruits et sons se mélangent bientôt et je t'entends plus que mes propres pulsations. Boom, boom… boom. J'ai très vite l'impression que leur fréquence ralentit.

C'était peut-être ça, l'éternité : exister à travers les souvenirs de ceux qui nous sont chers.

— Mon souvenir t'appartient, Roxanne. À toi, et à toi seule.

Dear Poet/ Writer, Hope you are finding time to reflect ponder, observe life and get inspired to write. Do not worry about getting rejections from magazines, newspapers, and publishers. A writer's work is to go on writing. And a writer must keep on writing. The rejection letters are good souvenirs for our stories. Regards, Avijeet

Pour résumer : chaque jour, je ressemblais davantage à la vieille paysanne russe attendant le train. Peu après la révolution, ou après une guerre ou une autre, la confusion règne au point que personne n'a idée de quand va pointer la nouvelle aube, et encore moins de quand va arriver le prochain train, mais la campagnarde chenue a entendu dire que celui-ci est prévu pour tantôt. Vu la taille du pays, et le désordre de ces temps, c'est une information aussi précise que toute personne douée de raison est en droit d'exiger, et puisque la vieille n'est pas moins raisonnable que quiconque, elle rassemble ses baluchons de nourriture, ainsi que tout l’attirail nécessaire au voyage, avant de se oser à côté de la voie ferrée. Quel autre moyen d'être sûre d'attraper le train que de se trouver déjà sur place lorsqu'il se présentera ? Et le seul moyen d'être là à l'instant voulu, c'est de rester là sans arrêt. Évidemment, il se peut que ce convoi n'arrive jamais, ni un autre. Cependant, sa stratégie a pris en compte jusqu'à cette éventualité : le seul moyen de savoir s'il y aura un train ou pas, c'est d'attendre suffisamment longtemps ! Combien de temps ? Qui peut le dire ? Après tout, il se peut que le train surgisse immédiatement après qu'elle a renoncé et s'en est allée, et dans ce cas, toute cette attente, si longue eût-elle été, aurait été en vain. Mouais, pas très fiable, ce plan, ricaneront certains. Mais le fait est qu'en ce monde personne ne peut être complètement sûr de rien, n'est-ce pas ? La seule certitude, c'est que pour attendre plus longtemps qu'une vieille paysanne russe, il faut savoir patienter sans fin. Au début, elle se blottit au milieu de ses baluchons, le regard en alerte afin de ne pas manquer la première volute de fumée à l'horizon. Les jours forment des semaines, les semaines des mois, les mois des années. Maintenant, la vieille femme se sent chez elle : elle sème et récolte ses modestes moissons, accomplit les tâches de chaque saison et empêche les broussailles d'envahir la voie ferrée pour que le cheminot voie bien où il devra passer. Elle n'est pas plus heureuse qu'avant, ni plus malheureuse. Chaque journée apporte son lot de petites joies et de menus chagrins. Elle conjure les souvenirs du village qu'elle a laissé derrière elle, récite les noms de ses parents proches ou éloignés. Quand vous lui demandez si le train va enfin arriver, elle se contente de sourire, de hausser les épaules et de se remettre à arracher les mauvaises herbes entre les rails. Et aux dernières nouvelles, elle est toujours là-bas, à attendre. Comme moi, elle n'est allée nulle part, finalement ; comme elle, j'ai cessé de m'énerver pour ça. Pour sûr, tout aurait été différent si elle avait pu compter sur un horaire de chemins de fer fiable, et moi sur un procès en bonne et due forme. Le plus important, c'est que, l'un comme l'autre, nous avons arrêté de nous torturer la cervelle avec des questions qui nous dépassaient, et nous nous sommes contentés de veiller sur ces mauvaises herbes. Au lieu de rêver de justice, j'espérais simplement quelques bons moments entre amis ; au lieu de réunir des preuves et de concocter des arguments, je me contentais de me régaler des bribes de juteuses nouvelles venues du monde extérieur ; au lieu de soupirer après de vastes paysages depuis longtemps hors de portée, je m'émerveillais des moindres détails, des plus intimes changements survenus dans ma cellule. Bref, j'ai conclus que je n'avais aucun pouvoir sur ce qui se passait en dehors de ma tête. Tout le reste résidait dans le giron énigmatique des dieux présentement en charge. Et lorsque j'ai enfin appris à cesser de m'en inquiéter, l'absolution ainsi conférée est arrivée avec une étonnante abondance de réconfort et de soulagement.

Life is a never ending journing. And in every place we land, a new lesson and experience is given to us as our souvenir.

Certaines personnes voulaient être heureuses toute leur vie, ce n'était pas possible. Mais les petits instants de bonheur qu'elles vivaient pouvaient, eux, durer toute une vie. À travers les souvenirs.

Perhaps creativity’s greatest mercy is this: By completely absorbing our attention for a short and magical spell, it can relieve us temporarily from the dreadful burden of being who we are. Best of all, at the end of your creative adventure, you have a souvenir—something that you made, something to remind you forever of your brief but transformative encounter with inspiration.

Dear Poet/ Writer, Hope you are finding time to reflect, ponder, and observe life. Each leaf, each stone, each flower, and each tree has a story to tell us. You must understand the language of the leaves, and the flowers. You must allow yourself to feel the music of nature. The breeze serenades us. The waves bring their own music. Do not worry about getting rejections from magazines, newspapers, and publishers. A writer's work is to go on writing. And a writer must keep on writing. The rejection letters become good souvenirs for our stories. Regards, Avijeet

Moran’s inspirational oil painting The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, currentlydisplayed in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Reproductions of the famous painting were ubiquitous in the Yellowstone gift shops, where the scene was replicated on calendars, postcards, coffee mugs, and other park souvenirs.