I now know how your angercame from skeletonsthat rattled in your heartand you couldn’t escape them.

Wouldn’t the world be a much better place if we didn’t make it past the age of maybe 10? Think back to when we were younger, before we were so easily influenced by adults. We...

When we think of the past it’s the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

Thì ra cuộc đời tôi kỳ thực có khác nào con thuyền bơi ngược dòng sông không ngừng bị đẩy lui về dĩ vãng. Đối với tôi tương lai đã nằm lại phía sau xa...

When one embraces a moment of rapture from the past, either by trying to reclaim it or by refusing to let it go, how can its brightness not tarnish, turn grey with longing and sorrow,...

Life was about loss. One minute standing on the promise of your dreams, then free-falling backward into nothingness. Is this what it meant to grow old? To gradually be stripped of all you cared about....

They, who continue to stay turned to watch their past mistakes, will miss the potential successes of the future.

Where exactly does it come from, I’d like to know, this ineradicable attitude of superiority toward the past? This stubbornly dumb, can’t-kill-it-with-an-ax conviction that we, the now, critically and categorically know better than they, the...

I didn’t know the demonsthat walked across your memory.They came from the dustwhen you were at peacein your grave.

It is not good for the spirits to dwell on that which cannot be altered.

Stop a minute, Ambrose!” interrupted Master Nathaniel. “I’ve got a sudden silly whim that we should take an oath I must have read when I was a youngster in some old book… the words have...

Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.

The past is for learning from and letting go. You can’t revisit it. It vanishes.

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...

how sad and bad and mad it was – but then, how it was sweet

In history, truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost . . . especially against the narrow and futile patriotism, which, instead of pressing forward in pursuit of truth, takes pride in walking backwards to...

It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you’re alone. It feels less like a wound and more like a poultice.

Don’t ever let your spouse or partner blame an outside person or persons for the ruin of your relationship or their past relationships. If two people are committed to one another then no one can...

I have been talking of the past (your past and mine) only in order that you may turn from it forever. One wrench and the tooth will be out. You can begin as if nothing...

I believe in unlimited discovery and achievement.- I believe that dreams can become reality.- I believe in true love.- I believe in kindness and intelligence.- I trust life, regardless.

I thought about how the past can become so small. An entire day, 24 separate, heavy hours, becomes the size of a tiny brown leaf falling from a tree. Before you know it, a whole...

Don’t sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past… It’s gone! Learn from it and move on…

When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

History isn’t all fact–it’s just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it’s been a slow revision. The more time passes, the easier it becomes to reinvent the past.

But it is always easy to put together stories about a past which nobody any longer remembers, like those about journeys to countries where nobody has ever been.

A deceitful man will go as far as to trample all over a woman’s reputation and spirit, in order to prove to his ex-love that he was faithful. The irony, is he is still in...

Almost all sadness comes from thinking about the past, and all worry from thinking about the future — present-mindedness is your only safe haven.

Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret.

…before you, life was desolate – the past hardly worth remembering – and now, each moment a keepsake I can’t throw away …

Sometimes it’s more painful to draw to mind the good times

Who knows what’s for true once a time is past? There’s no way to prove how something was that’s gone. And if a time is gone, what does it matter? It’s all rain into rivers...

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Just because The Past always hung there upon its hooks on the game-room wall, you didn’t have to pull it down and use it on yourself.

A long time ago someone told me that a story will tell itself, when it’s ready.

When you’re in love with two people, always choose the second. The fact that you are constantly thinking of the second person makes it obvious that the first will never fulfill you, unless the second...

It’s not a crime to wish for other worlds. You’ll get taxed for it but they can’t throw you in jail for creating your own private world…yet. Dramatics are fun, an indulgence. ‘You can’t go...

Guilt is an indulgence, it entangles you in the past.

I keep coming back to certain books, and you—to try to find myself again