I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present.

When you’re hounded by the shame of the past, you can turn into a pretty miserable person who is always trying to measure up and please others.

Why should you live in the past when the present already has everything that you need to start a new beginning?

To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you revisit it, analyze it, regret it, or sweat it…it’s over. It can hurt you...

I knew that on that island one was driven back into the past. There was so much space, so much silence, so few meetings that one too easily saw out of the present, and then...

Every cure for nostalgia is obsolete.

Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my youth was ending in an explosion of unreal passion. Memories like these make my life sacred and holy.

Letting yesterday affect today will only destroy the excitement of tomorrow.

Procrastination is a way of living in the past instead of the present moment.