More than half of my life is past; I have left only the time I need for turning the rest of it to account and for effacing my errors by my virtues.

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.

...The most important thing, I think. You can't run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and realize that it's part of you.

I don’t think much about guys from the past. I’m glad I knew them, but there’s a reason they didn’t make it into my future.

Scars we have today are the constant reminder of our past. They are our auto energizer in our journey toward the future. No need to fear the scars.

La peur du lendemain est une plaisanterie comparée a celle de la veille. Et le destin n'est rien qu'un peu de passé en retard.

I shall not dwell in the past...I shall not dread the present...I shall not fear the Future...For as Long as I live...I shall only think of success.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.

I held her gaze as I held her in my arms. With all that holding I couldn’t hold on to the moment, and it slipped past me into the lonely past.

Because I have forgiven my past, and God has forgiven my past, no person on earth can make me denounce my past. It's what made me who I am today.

Just because someone has been in your life for many years, doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be a point at which you finally decide to let go.

I used to love lulling, running water – a sound so infrequent in cityscapes. Its loss always made me feel lonely when I lived amongst concrete.

Your brain activates a magnificent system to store memories as reference points for you to learn from... not to create a past for you to be stuck in.

She mourned the history that the invisible intruder had erased, but not enough that she would spend a second more of her future feeling the emptiness.

I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.