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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.
When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.
History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.
The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.
We all carry our past. But it is a case of getting on with your life and improving it, if you want to.
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.
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