He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
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.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.