“All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“People come, people go—they'll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on th…”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“Scars aren’t there to loudly announce, ‘I’ve been through more!’ But rather, they quietly whisper, ‘You survived.”— Marina Miller, thoughtcatalog.com
“There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Pictures? No, they lie. You’re not the picture. My dear, you’re not the dates, or the ink, or the paper. You’re not these trunks of junk and dust. You’re only you, here, now—the present you.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes. When you're nine, you think you've always been nine years old and will always be. When you're thirty, it seems you've always been balanced there on that bright rim of middle life. And the…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Memories, as my father once said, are porcupines. To hell with them! Stay away from them! They make you unhappy. They ruin your work. They make you cry.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“You think you know the answer, you’re going to find peace? Like knowing is somehow going to fix you? You think after what happened there’s any peace for you, sweetheart? How about this. Instead of asking yourself what happened, just accept that it happened.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn't know when the last argument happened, or the last time you had sex, or the last time you looked into their eyes and thanked God they were in your life. After they were gone? That was all you thought about.”— J.R. Ward, amazon.com
“Neville recommends at the end of every day, before you go to sleep, to think through the events of the day. If any events or moments did not go the way you wanted, replay them in your mind in a way that thrills you. As you recreate those events in your mind exactly as you want, you are cleaning up y…”— Rhonda Byrne, amazon.com
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”— Deepak ChopraVerified account, twitter.com
“Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.”— Margaret Mitchell, amazon.com