"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 the past seemed ten times c..."
- John Fowles
"Is your life story the truth? Yes, the chronological events are true. Is it the whole truth? No, you see and judge it through your conditioned eyes and mind - not of all involved - nor do you see the ..."
- Rasheed Ogunlaru
"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 no more."
- Mandy Hale
"Procrastination is a way of living in the past instead of the present moment."
- Debasish Mridha
"We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
"I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present."
- Jonathan Harnisch
"I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and bald as a road. But memory is never like that. It makes hills of feeling in collapsed hours, a scene ..."
- Lydia Millet
"Do you think the memory of someone should dictate how we live going forward?' he asks, threading and unthreading his fingers together.'It depends,' I say. 'I think you can probably honor someone's mem..."
- Alexandra Bracken
"In my memories I have set my life in Brooklyn between pieces of glass, separate from my current existence, and this has enabled me to move forward. The past cannot tie me in knots, nor can it cause me..."
- Alice Hoffman
"Why should you live in the past when the present already has everything that you need to start a new beginning?"
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