#past

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#life #past #life

When you understand," Brandy says, "that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan," Brandy says, "then we'll figure out who you're going to be. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#past #life

Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. ↗

— Rick Warren

#hurts #past #life

The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#past #present #life

She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#life #past #present #problematic #regret

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity. ↗

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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It's best to be ruthless with the past. ↗

— Stephen King

#past #ruthless #life

If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory." Translation by David Downie ↗

— Marguerite Yourcenar

#life

No matter how much you revisit the past, there's nothing new to see. ↗

— Robert Tew

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