One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.
I am connected to the past in a way that keeps me going forward. Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.
We can never run away from our past. The past will catch up to us because it is us. It is a part of us; it's what makes us we are. It's what delineates the borders of our societies.
I think we really forget how connected we are to the past.
Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one's past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of 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.
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.