“Take heed to thyself, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons.”
Book of Deuteronomy, c. 600 BC · Hebrew law and address to the people
Chapter 2
On Memory
“This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.”
Book of Psalms, c. 450 BC · Hebrew songbook
“When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones? then ye shall answer them.”
Book of Joshua, c. 550 BC · the twelve memorial stones at the Jordan
“And some there be, which have no memorial; who are perished, as though they had never been.”
Ben Sira, c. 180 BC · Jerusalem scribe, author of the Book of Sirach
“Not to know what happened before you were born is to be forever a child.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 46 BC · Roman orator and statesman
“He that praiseth, and he that is praised; he that remembers, and he that is remembered, will soon be dust and ashes.”
Marcus Aurelius, c. 175 AD · Roman emperor writing privately to himself
“Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not. The persons who make up a nation to-day, next year die, and their experience with them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841 · American essayist
A pooling of 128 controlled studies found that structured life review and reminiscence sessions measurably lift mood, life satisfaction and sense of purpose in later life.
Martin Pinquart and Simon Forstmeier, 2012 · meta-analysis of reminiscence interventions
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