Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.
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Related Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it. T.S. ELIOT All the things that are in the past are in the past. PABLO SANDOVAL There's no sustenance in the past. VIOLETTE LEDUC The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH ... I realized that my father had learned something in his recovery that I still hadn't totally gras... RENEE CARLINO But you have to let go of it sometime, Gaby. You can't change the past, any of it, and hanging on ju... SOHEIR KHASHOGGI To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE The past ignorance has great lessons for us in our present day. Until we take real lessons from the ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now. FREDERICK DODSON I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde... GARY F EVANS... Honesty,moral standards ,and principles all partner up with truth be the best you can be. In this wo... GARY F EVANS... A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind. LOUIS L'AMOUR No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves... HARUKI MURAKAMI I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride. DANIEL DAY-LEWIS What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not. STEVE NASH The past is somewhere we can walk with our memories Never with our footsteps MIMI NOVIC The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and... ROSE MACAULAY For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an op... RAQUEL CEPEDA Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all. KEN KESEY The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a ... ROBERT SMITHSON I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past. YVONNE CRAIG I believe one of the most important reasons I am here today is to practice forgiveness and to learn ... LISA J. SHULTZ Writers don't forget the past; they turn it into raw material. JOYCE RACHELLE Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been there, ... HARUKI MURAKAMI What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact th... WILLIAM MAXWELL Don’t be ruled by your past. Don’t be crippled by the past. Let the past be the past and focus o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing ou... CORMAC MCCARTHY Your past, while it may be tragic, painful or even embarrassing, doesn't have the right to control y... SD WARD I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training. WARREN CUCCURULLO I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future. DAN QUAYLE I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that. AIDAN QUINN That's history. I say history because it happened in the past. MURRAY WALKER Pause & Remember- If you empty yourself of yesterday's sorrows, you will have much more room for... JENNI YOUNG The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA These young ones. They do not understand. There are so few of us left who remember how destructive r... CONNILYN COSSETTE It will be fun to be back in Milwaukee. But the first game is kind of your revenge. Getting the win ... GEORGE KARL Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. An Indigo Bunting let out a trill, a cheery song, reminding me of better days, of hope and happiness... CHERYL R COWTAN Life is much like writing in ink : All you can do is read over your past and
look forward to a blank... GABE SUICO I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I lied," I said. ... "I know it," he said. "Then do something about it. Do anything, just ... WILLIAM FAULKNER You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES The road to healing is a rocky one, and you need to know that. There are times when every fibre in y... CORALLIE BUCHANAN dont let the old break you; let the love make you BERTRAND RUSSELL Long after the poor departed have gone from our hearts, their insignificant dust continues to be min... MARCEL PROUST Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. CHUCK PALAHNIUK I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying... TONI MORRISON My name will be Edith Proir," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget. VERONICA ROTH We long to have again the vanished past, in spite of all its pain. SOPHOCLES Reinvent yourself. Don't let your past weigh you down. MARTY RUBIN It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is... MARCEL PROUST You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently. MARTY RUBIN I hit walls of past pleasure all the time, and for me past pleasure is much harder to process then p... ANDREW SOLOMON Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future... MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO even in death, his last breath was poetry existing in the wind and on the breeze of ... N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ... CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS... To run from your past, is to be a coward of facing what you have done. To live in your past, is to b... TRACIE BETSCH The day you forget your past, finally you would be free THE QUIET GIRL We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy. RICHARD ROEPER Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers. CAROL BELLAMY I finished my cigarette, but i would like very much that i finished myself with it. MLADEN ĐORđEVIć Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free o... BORIS KODJOE 'The World of imaginations'.. can be your desire, ..thinking about past, future and more and it's wa... ARVIND YADAV It takes a certain kind of bravery and a certain kind of goodness to be able to not just put your de... TOM HAYDEN In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do. GIANNI VERSACE Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward. ZENA WYNN The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew. SOTONYE ANGA Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of tim... BOB NEWHART “A True Friend is someone who understands your past. Believes in your future and accepts you TODAY... FEMALE IMAGINATION I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET To forgive is a decision, to forget takes effort, to heal is a process, to believe again takes coura... VICTORIA WEN ...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happen... RAYMOND E. FEIST Forgiveness is a powerful mental process that detoxifies our mental, spiritual and physical realms. JACINTA MPALYENKANA Let go of the past! For the past is not holding on to you, you are holding on to the past! PHILIP T. M. I'd sooner make fresh mistakes today than correct the errors of the past. MARTY RUBIN She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. 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