our past QUOTES

21 " We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heros or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Choke

22 " Every time we choose our past over our present, we kill our future. "

23 " As exciting, difficult, and memorable as our past can be, there comes a time when we have to get on with living. "

― Patrick Carman , The Tenth City (The Land of Elyon, #3)

24 " The bad news is, our past defines us. However, the good news is, our future will someday be a part of that past. "

― Palle Oswald

25 " The past is bound to be fragmentary, bound to be reconstructed, bound to be reinvented. It serves only to collect the truths of today. If our present is the child of the past, our past is the child of the present. And the future will be the harvester of our bastard offspring. "

― Amin Maalouf , بدايات

26 " When we walk with knowledge in our present and wisdom from our past we are able to discern how to prepare for tomorrow" . HS/el "

27 " Examination of our past is never time-wasting. Reverberations from the past provide learning rubrics for living today. "

― , Dead Toad Scrolls

28 " Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. "

29 " I am sure that if we can find reconciliation with our past – whether parents, partners or friends – we should try and do that. It won't be perfect, it will be a compromise . . . but it might mean acceptance and, the big word, forgiveness. "

― Jeanette Winterson , Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

30 " Sometimes we don't want to be tethered to yesterday. It's nicer to forget. Maybe the gaps in our memory are there for a reason, evolutionary perhaps, to give us the space to grow, to get away from childishness or childish things. Or maybe it's so we have the chance to invent, or at least include, some magic in our yesterdays, surely the consolation of getting older, of moving away from youth, is that we can shape our past to our fantasies. So, even if the present isn't going the way we want it, we can stand and remember our earlier selves as exciting and funny and daring "

― , Spectacles

31 " Childhood is a human water, a water which comes out of the shadows. This childhood in the mists and glimmers, this life in the slowness of limbo gives us a certain layer of births. What a lot of beings we have begun! What a lot of lost springs which have nevertheless, flowed! Reverie toward our past then, reverie looking for childhood seems to bring back lives which which have never taken place, lives which have been imagined. Reverie is a mnemonics of the imagination. In reverie we re-enter into contact with possibilities which destitute has not been able to make use of. "

― Gaston Bachelard

32 " 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 living by recollecting our past in a series of sequential personal events and an orderly arrangement of a linked series of cultural happenings. Writing our personal story calls for us to remember the sensation of what it entails to live tactilely before losing lucidity of the mind. "

― , Dead Toad Scrolls

33 " I have always thought of memories as fragments, like colored glass shards in a kaleidoscope. It is the source of great beauty in our lives, yet the cause of such heartache. It remains the bridge between our past and present - it gives weight and dimension to our very existence. "

― Lang Leav , Memories

34 " Ferrari: How odd, Borges, it seems that we are talking constantly through memory. Sometimes, our conversations remind me of a dialogue between two memories.

Borges: In fact, that’s what it is. If we are something, we are our past, aren’t we? Our past is not what can be recorded in a biography or in the newspapers. Our past is our memory. That memory can be hidden or inaccurate—it doesn’t matter. It’s there, isn’t it? It can be a lie but that lie becomes part of our memory, part of us. (Conversations, Vol. 1) "

― Jorge Luis Borges

35 " The human life cycle no less than evolves around the box; from the open-topped box called a bassinet, to the pine box we call a coffin, the box is our past and, just as assuredly, our future. It should not surprise us then that the lowly box plays such a significant role in the first Christmas story. For Christmas began in a humble, hay-filled box of splintered wood. The Magi, wise men who had traveled far to see the infant king, laid treasure-filled boxes at the feet of that holy child. And in the end, when He had ransomed our sins with His blood, the Lord of Christmas was laid down in a box of stone. How fitting that each Christmas season brightly wrapped boxes skirt the pine boughs of Christmas trees around the world. "

― , The Christmas Box (The Christmas Box, #1)

36 " Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures where we dare to face our past for the sake of our present. "

― Mary E. DeMuth , Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

37 " Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again. "

38 " We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries. "

― Glen Duncan , Love Remains

39 " It may be possible to forget our past but our past is not going to forget us. "

40 " When we can return to the roads of our past and see nothing but the beautiful view, then we've truly moved on. "

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