The past is not a package one can lay away. – Emily Dickinson
Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead. – Henry Rollins
Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird. – Paul Eldridge
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. – Lesley P. Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953
The one charm of the past is that it is the past. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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. – Wendell Berry
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. – Virginia Woolf
Look not at the days gone by with a forlorn heart. They were simply the dots we can now connect with our present, to help us draw the outline of a beautiful tomorrow. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com
The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. – Ralph Blum
My soul is not a palace of the past… – James Russell Lowell, “A Glance Behind the Curtain”
