#past

"You will never get everything in life but you will get enough."

"The past beats inside me like a second heart."

"The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know."

"Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind."

"In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution."

"I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been."

"I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders."

"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."

"Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present."

"The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind."

"Past and future is determined by what is now…right now! This is why the present is a gift; the only one that ultimately matters most."

"The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?"

"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."

"You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful."

"When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating."

"Into my heart an air that killsFrom yon far country blows:What are those blue remembered hills,What spires, what farms are those?That is the land of lost content,I see it shining plain,The happy highways where I wentAnd cannot come again."

"The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go."

"My past is black and my future is blank. My only canvas is the present. The best color to paint with is love."

"I wanted the past to go away, I wantedto leave it, like another country; I wantedmy life to close, and openlike a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the songwhere it fallsdown over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery;I wantedto hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know,whoever I was, I wasalivefor a little while."

"The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future."