Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can't change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and a stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future was the past was not.
The past is far behind. If you still want to look at it, you will painfully stretch your neck muscles. Don't live in the past, leave the past, but learn from it.
Much of history is fragmentary and essentially anachronistic – condemning the past for not being more like the present. It has no real interest in the pastness of the past.
Gordon Camrose: You gotta stop living in the past, John. John Smith: Hey, I am the past.
I've owned mopeds in the past.
The important thing for the remembering author is not what he experienced, but the weaving of his memory, the Penelope work of recollection. Or should one call it, rather, the Penelope work of forgetting? ... And is not his work of spontaneous recoll...
Sometimes... I feel like I can't picture him anymore. Like I'm forgetting him... I forget the way he looked when he smiled. The sound of his voice. The way his hand felt wrapped around mine. And it hurts so badly, Jack. It hurts so fucking bad. Somet...
Forget the favors you have given; remember those received.
When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.
My skirt with tears is always wet: I have forgotten to forget.
A fool will jump into the bath and forget to wash his face.
Past and history are not the same. Past is what happened. It consists of events that affected the patient's self, some of which he can remember, but the most he is having trouble remembering. History is transforming the past to a story that the perso...
When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. We cannot love when we feel fear.... When...
Danger past, God forgotten.
What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
And for a second, just for a second I forget. I forget that this isn't real.
It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.
Aku yang terlalu naif, menyangka bisa membuatmu mencintaiku semudah membalikkan telapak tangan. Ternyata aku salah.
I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want him to forget me.