Cecelia Ahern Quotes

Perhaps the two greatest moments of my life were standing on the moon and being outside of the room when my granddaughter was born! We tend not to remember the worst.

Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.

I can remember what I ate in the most important moments in my life.

There are moments that you'll remember for the rest of your life and there are moments that you think you'll remember for the rest of your life, and it's not often they turn out to be the same moment.

In every life there is a perfect moment, like a flash of sun. We can shape our days by that, if we will - before by faith, and afterward by memory.

Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.

Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.

We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date.

To me, they are equally important, as they represent a certain period in my life and times. With that in mind, it really is impossible to pick favorites.

In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.

My songs are a time stamp for a lot of people's lives.

Your memory is not my memory.

One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.

Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.

Memory... is an internal rumor.

memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.

I think it's a universal thing in every family, that people have their own specific versions of pivotal events or even small memories.

Memory itself is an internal rumour.

There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel their beauty or sublimity enhanced to him by such connections.

I was the world in which I walked.

When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, "I am all this!" There is simply all this.

Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.

I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself.

I think memories are like dreams. Not reliable proof of anything. I can't prove a memory any more than I can prove a dream.

Life is but a series of memories you make.