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.
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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.
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.
You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.
Too many people dwell on the past: the thing is to get on with life.
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.
I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel right.
People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.