#past

As we experience this love, there is a temptation at times to become hostile to our earlier understandings, feeling embarrassed that we were so "simple" or "naive," or "brainwashed" or whatever terms arise when we haven't come to terms with our own story. These past understandings aren't to be denied or dismissed; they're to be embraced. Those experiences belong. Love demands that they belong. That's where we were at that point in our life and God met us there. Those moments were necessary for us to arrive here, at this place at this time, as we are. Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new. ↗

— Rob Bell

#love #past #experience

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#captures #humankind #language #past

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#agree #decided #events #past #past events

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#key #memories #past

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it. ↗

— Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

#brought #forward #founded #itself #past

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. ↗

— John Buchan

#debts #future #our #ourselves #past

Withdraw, like a turtle, into a hard yet harmless shell, ornamented with beautiful memories of the past. from the book 'I Know Who You Are! ↗

— Fatima Masood

#ikwya #life #live #memories #past

I don't care about the past. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#care #i #past

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#became #become #danger #future #man

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#form #grew #i #in the past #narrative