"The whole of eternity is present now. We apprehend eternity through our senses and mental imagination. We can never recapture lost time. Memory allows us to taste the scintillating experience of livin..."
- Kilroy J. Oldster
"Human migration is an important part of our ancestral story. The places we live shape us, the places we leave behind forges our history, and the places we might travel to becomes our mysterious future..."
"We lavish more attention onto our past, after its done, than in the making of it. as a result; "What is done" and "Could have been" becomes ruthless killers lurking in the darkness of our consciousnes..."
- Efrat Cybulkiewicz
"Fuck the past. This was the present."
- Maggie Stiefvater
"If you're going to make the past your present, be prepared for a lifetime of dust ..."
- Lily Graham
"He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present."
- Larry McMurtry
"The challenge is to draw on the past but not be bound by it" p. 20"
- David Brazzeal
"A person who can not deal with the past of others, can not deal with yours."
- Davi Oliveira
"Old places fire the internal weather of our pasts. The mild winds, aching calms, and hard storms of forgotten emotions return to us when we return to the spots where they happened."
- Siri Hustvedt
"He remembered a version of himself untrammeled by expectation, unimpeded by Ego. He had suffered in the many years since then, seeking to return to that original self, if, in fact, it ever existed. An..."
- Ashim Shanker