#past

Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo. ↗

— Wade Davis

#culture #evolve #future #past #survival

...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#past #prayer #truth #change

We had our thing. It is a really good memory but now we're older. Things change. ↗

— Abbi Glines

#past #change

The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right. ↗

— Leslie T. Chang

#inspirational #past-and-future #change

The past is the past. I believe that people can change, under the right conditions (like plastic surgery). ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #past #plastic-surgery #change

You can't change the past, only your perception of it; but you can control the future. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#control #future #past #perception #change

Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. In the process they plastically retranscribe these procedural memories, so that they become conscious explicit memories, sometimes for the first time, and patients no longer need to "relive" or "reenact" them, especially if they were traumatic. (229-230) ↗

— Norman Doidge

#brain-plasticity #healing-the-past #memories #change

Nights without beginning that had no end. Talking about a past as if it'd really happened. Telling themselves that this time next year, this time next year, things were going to be different. ↗

— Raymond Carver

#life #life-changing #past #change

The distance to the corner shops of childhood becomes unfathomable, immeasurable; the candy bars have changed. And change has changed. ↗

— Ilse Aichinger

#childhood #past #age

The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement. The opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth (Niels Bohr)." By this, he means that we require a larger reading of the human past, of our relations with each other, the universe and God, a retelling of our older tales to encompass many truths and to let us grow with change. ↗

— Neil Postman

#narrative #past #physics #truth #change