Quotes of: Past-life Keyword

I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me.

The Summer Girls

Sometimes, Miss Jarmond, it's not easy to bring back the past. There are unpleasant surprises. The truth is harder than ignorance

Sarah's Key

There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.

Myself with Others: Selected Essays

Smells, I think, may be the last thing on earth to die.

Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust: A Mother-Daughter Journey to Reclaim the Past

... the past was what we carried with us, threaded to the future, and we decided whether to keep it close or let it go.

The Museum of Extraordinary Things

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation

The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.

Looking Backward: 2000-1887

I know who you are...I've fallen hard for that person, and I sure as hell am not going to let you fade into your past.

Love Exactly

Sometimes you cannot clear the past completely. You must live alongside your sorrow.

The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

A 2011 McKinsey report noted that men are promoted based on potential, while women are promoted based on past accomplishments.

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

A Lion Among Men

A place with no handholds,no landmarks,no past at all:That would have been too much like dying

Lady Oracle

As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: "Elegance is not worth that price.

The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past

And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.

The Law of Similars

Right at the flamingo orgy! Left at the multiethnic roof Santas! Straight past the pissing cherubs!

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

One bad habit people do way past the age they should be doing it is living. The youth of today, they’re so old.

Sleepwalking is restercise

Everyone wavers between the emotionally still-alive past ad the already dead future. Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)

The Situationists and the City: A Reader

I suspect each of us uses the past to prop up the bruised present. It’s a clumsy try for the comfort of normality.

Spiral Road

Let your strength from the past provide proof of your abilities to . . . conquer the difficulties of the present.

For the (Soon) Unemployed: You Against Them

But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.

The Sweet Far Thing

It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you're alone. It feels less like a wound and more like a poultice.

The Storyteller