Il passato non si può cambiare, con l’accettazione, il perdono, la penitenza e risoluzione, possiamo ampliare il futuro.The past cannot be changed. With acceptance, forgiveness, atonement and resolution, we can broaden the future.

No trees, sky or ground. No other buildings or fields. No winding path, no brambles, no outhouse or pond or flowers, no sunshine or children playing. Just blackness.

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

Perhaps the trick is to find a gentle use for memory. Learn to cup the small and glorious moments in our hands and treasure them, finding some solace this way. Otherwise all they do is...

History is always a grand fantasy… To reconstruct is to invent.

Perhaps not being very self-aware in the past masked depression. I think I was confused. I think I was immature. I think I probably was quite depressed.

It can be very seductive to tell our story to others who will listen because, lets face it, who doesn’t love to ‘commiserate’ (in this context, meaning to share their misery) with other likeminded people....

Just had to dig, fight real hard to get back, to get past all those cars. Once I got there, my tires were used up,

Study the past if you would define the future.

If we’re not willing to look back into the past to find out the truth about what happened, we really can’t move into the future with any hope for healing,

I can’t defeat anyone except my past and transcend to be better.

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

Many people look at their past and bemoan their mistakes. Those errors in judgment, behavior, hurting others, and the wrong decisions may be what consumes them now. It does not have to be that way,...

Quella strada del passato si srotolava confusamente di fianco a noi come se la tazza della vita si fosse rovesciata e ogni cosa fosse impazzita.

Tell yourself you’re dead, the way Matt does, so the past can’t hurt you.

We need to be better, but we definitely made some improvements from how it was here over the past couple of years.

Therefore, the places in which we have experienced day dreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as day-dreams these dwelling-places of the past remain...

I made friends with the future. But I’m still friends with the past.

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

The older I get, the more I’ve got going for me. Each yesterday is a new me I’ve got working for my collective experience, like an army of clones.

Widge can see the past.” Poppet says suddenly. “That’s why his stories are so good.” “The past is easier,” Widget says. “It’s already there.””In the stars?” Bailey asks.”No.” Widget says. “On people. The past stays...

I didn’t write any fiction until I was past thirty.

Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.

Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend...

The thing that’s changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I...

Jen remains unbeaten on the season with a dominating win. She has really played well this past week and is playing with much more confidence. Amy played her first varsity matches of the season and...

J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he’s been a...

It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the...

And I did wonder – because it’s now three years ago since I left prison – whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as...

I think we’re a working group, … In the past, I couldn’t say we were the hardest-working group collectively. You had individuals who worked hard, like Aaron and myself. Now you have a whole bunch...

Living is like driving,” my grandmother used to say. “You have to pick a lane.” Have I chosen the right lane? It feels like this place, this moment in time, lies exactly halfway between my...

This is because the Greeks had it backward, and no matter how hard humans try thinking otherwise, they still think like Greeks. For the Greeks, when you looked ahead all you saw was the past....

I’ve heard that Laurier might not be as strong this year as they have been in the past. However, I try not to look too much into what people are saying about teams until we...

Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.

You can’t let your past hold your future hostage.

We all have to live with our past, but it doesn’t have to define us.

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...

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

It is said that those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it. That’s not quite correct. We all forget history. The key is whether we have a way to go back to...

Let your strength from the pastprovide proof of your abilities to . . .conquer the difficulties of the present.

The past gives you no justice. Sentences are passed. But that doesn’t mean you get justice. You can stand there forever and rail and say, ‘Someone has to pay. I want what was taken from...

Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.

Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it.

Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor...

As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, we attack it, and we try...

Every choice is a loss. The past is not where you left it.

We have for the past year and undoubtedly will be for the next year, dealing with an electorate that is more alienated and more cynical than at any point in modern time.

Mayhap it was not wise to question God’s plans; mayhap he had been meant to live, to seek this justice, to serve some purpose. The past was the past. And the future…

Maybe you’ve gotten through something and when you did you thought, I am leaving that behind and will never return. And that’s a great way of thinking…for selfish jerks.If we actually care about people other...

I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona – this thing, this face, this person who writes this music… I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person...