It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.
We're all struggling to get out of the past. We see something that reminds us of something, and then we bring our baggage into the present. Then we project it onto people constantly.
The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
We all carry our past. But it is a case of getting on with your life and improving it, if you want to.
You can't dwell in your past but move forward, look forward. That's it.
The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.
Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.