#past

Living is like driving," my grandmother used to say. "You have to pick a lane." Have I chosen the right lane? It feels like this place, this moment in time, lies exactly halfway between my past and my future. ↗

— Kathleen Flinn

#future #life #past #life

What is our life: (Pause.) it’s looking forward or it’s looking back. And that’s our life. That’s it. Where is the moment? ↗

— David Mamet

#life #moment #past #present #life

...before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ... ↗

— John Geddes

#keepsakes #life #memories #moments #poetry

That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect. ↗

— Steve Carlton

#i #past #retrospect

Ever poised on that cusp between past and future, we tie memories to souvenirs like string to trees along life’s path, marking the trail in case we lose ourselves around a bend of tomorrow’s road. ↗

— Susan Lendroth

#memory #nostalgia #past #remembering #souvenir

It is possible to reclaim your future, to build a happy life despite an imperfect past. We can order the universe to our will and mind. ↗

— Katherine Marsh

#fate #past-and-future #life

„Tik išgėręs žmogus su malonumu gali prisiminti ką nors nemalonaus iš savo gyvenimo. ↗

— Sigitas Parulskis

#life #memories-truth #past #life

In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa, past and future are but distant measures of the present, and memories are as meaningless as promises. ↗

— Wade Davis

#memories #past #present #promises #west

The past is what you take with you. ↗

— Kate Atkinson

#past #life

I don't think much about guys from the past. I'm glad I knew them, but there's a reason they didn't make it into my future. ↗

— Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

#guys #lorraine-zago-rosenthal #love #move-on #past