“Some things don’t last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“You’ll find that the more you run from things, the more they chase after you.”— Sandeep Sidhu, wnq-writers.com
“Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.”— Anna Quindlen, amazon.com
“It got dark, the sea carried him rocking on its nocturnal surface. Memories passed through him, like streaks of mist over the water.”— Arthur Koestler, amazon.com
“Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging at your back and running its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do—the only thing—is run.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“Some nights I wish I could go back in life Not to change shit, just to feel a couple things twice”— Drake, open.spotify.com
“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry—all forms of fear—are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness a…”— Eckhart Tolle, amazon.com
“I’m naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.”— Anne Michaels, amazon.com
“People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“How do you go on when, in your heart, you begin to understand there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep.”— J.R.R Tolkien, amazon.com
“People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“I was born very far from where I’m supposed to be, and so I’m on my way home.”— Bob Dylan, amazon.com
“Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you’ll find an edge to cut you.”— Mark Lawrence, amazon.com
“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am cond…”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.”— Elie Wiesel, nobelprize.org