“Why does everyone talk about the past? All that counts is tomorrow's game.”— Roberto Clemente, baseball-almanac.com
“The greatest opportunity in the world is found here today.…We already know what yesterday has got for us. It’s already gone. Tomorrow, too far away. What about right now?”— Ray Lewis, citypaper.com
“The past is not your reality. The person you became to survive trauma was never you; you don't have to continue functioning as them. They operate out of fear & will often repeat self sabotaging habits & behaviors because they've grown accustomed to living in turmoil.”— Ebonee Davis, twitter.com
“The past is called the past for a reason. If you are constantly looking behind you, your eyes aren't on the road ahead. You don't drive a car that way, so why would you live your life that way?”— Rachel Van Dyken, amazon.com
“I've tried to put the pieces together. I wish I could prove it by trotting out blood tests, but I can't. All I can do is tell you the story I believe, the one I've heard from people who were there and should know.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“Look back and be grateful Look ahead and be hopeful Look around and be helpful”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“You cannot remove my scars or rewrite the past that haunts me. Just hold me tight and tell me everything is going to be okay.”— Michael Faudet, twitter.com
“You never get over it. But you get to where it doesn’t bother you so much.”— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.com
“I wish women didn’t have to rip our pasts open and show you everything and let you ogle our pain for you to believe us.”— Lindy West, latimes.com
“If you don't use your experience, your past is wasted, and you are betraying yourself.”— Alan Shepard, amazon.com
“I wish that photographs were physical spaces, like tunnels; that you could crawl inside them and go back.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.”— Andy Stanley, amazon.com
“The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on.”— Edmund Hillary, nzedge.com
“I mention her name and the old pain returns. Forget her, you say? How can you forget a living human being?”— Sholem Aleichem, goodreads.com
“Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”— Jon Krakauer, amazon.com