“It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.”— Mark Epstein, amazon.com
“I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.”— Uma Thurman, goodreads.com
“The thing that is most hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most wind up in parentheses.”— John Irving, amazon.com
“It’s easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you’d be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it’s lined with cracks and…”— Sherrilyn Kenyon, amazon.com
“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”— John Updike, amazon.com
“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can’t bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?”— James Joyce, amazon.com
“We all need a past - that’s where our sense of identity comes from.”— Penelope Lively, penguinrandomhouse.com
“I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Past hurt can still inflict pain on you today if you don’t learn to let go and move forward.”— Tony Robbins, twitter.com
“I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.”— Michael Faudet, amazon.com