#past

When you can see your life in retrospect, the romanticism of how good things once were gives way to the reality that positives and negatives comprise every day and every decade. (235) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#memory #past #life

Delving into the past had unveiled a cruel lesson - that in the book of life it is perhaps best not to turn back pages; it was a path on which, whatever direction we took, we'd never be able to choose our own destiny. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#cruel-lesson #direction #past #path #turning-back-the-pages

There comes a moment in life when one must acknowledge that you just can't keep looking back into your past for reasons to keep someone in your present and future. Regardless of how much looking that cruel reality in the eye hurts...memories can't be enough. ↗

— Eiry Nieves

#love #memories #past #present-moment #relationships

To envision the future; you must forget the past and make the present a memory ↗

— Jeremy Aldana

#journey #life #past #present #life

Life ends with a snap of small bones, a head cracked from its stem, and a spirit unmoored... ↗

— Sarah Kernochan

#jane-was-here #karma #paranormal #paranormal-fiction #paranormal-suspense

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future. ↗

— Joel A. Barker

#function #future #make #past #prophecy

Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing. ↗

— Enid Blyton

#looking-back #punishments #remorse #undo-past-mistakes #undone

You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep rereading the last one ↗

— Unknown

#living #past #present #life

Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. 'Nonsense, Patricia,' I tell her as I climb on board my train. 'The past's what you take with you. ↗

— Kate Atkinson

#past #life

...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#past-and-future #spiritual