“Telling our personal story constitutes an act of consciousness that defines the ethical lining of a person’s constitution. Recounting personal stories promotes personal growth, spurs the performance of selfless deeds, and in doing so enhances the ability of the equitable eye of humanity to scroll rearward and forward. Every person must become familiar with our communal history of struggle, loss, redemption, and meaningfully contemplate the meaning behind our personal existence in order to draft a proper and prosperous future for succeeding generations. Accordingly, every person is responsible for sharing their story using the language of thought that best expresses their sanguine reminiscences. Without a record of pastimes, we will never know what were, what we now are, or what we might become by steadfastly and honorably struggling with mortal chores.”
“Where does the past go when it changes?”
“Future will forgive us but are you ready to forgive your past?”
“You should live in such a way that looking back at your past later on in the future, you will thank God for your life and for what He has done for you”
“That is who I was yesterday. Today I walk with God.”
“Everyone should be very grateful radioactivity exists at all. It can kill you, yes, but without it you wouldn t have been born in the first place. On Earth, deep under your feet, our planet happens to contain many atoms that do decay, all the time. Less so now than in the past, but still, Earth s mantle is radioactive. When atoms decay there, the particles they emit bump into their neighbours and generate heat, the very heat that contributes to keeping our planet warm. Without radioactivity, there would be no seismic or volcanic activity. The surface of the Earth would have been dead cold billions of yeras ago. Life as we know it would probably not exist at all.”
“I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.”
“We are so afraid of being pulled under the water with the anchor. Scared of letting these memories swirl around our mind as they should. As tragic as it might feel, it’s evident that the sea we are drowning in is the same sea we were born into.”
“The story of your past doesn’t have to become the story of your life.”
“If you re going to make the past your present, be prepared for a lifetime of dust ...”
“If you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!”
“The past is never past and the present was seeming increasingly absent. --Here Tomorrow”
“I like you, Mallory. And God knows you deserve a hell of a lot better than me.” He dipped his chin, laughing as he thrust his hand through his hair. “God. I suck at this. Can we just forget—” I snapped out of it. “You like me?” His gaze flew to mine. “Yeah, I do. And I know I’ve been with Paige and I’m not going to pretend that meant nothing, but it’s not how I feel for you. Not remotely like how I feel for you. And it’s not because of our past—because of you and I knowing each other for so long,” he said, and the words kept coming out in a rush. “At first, I thought that was why—this attraction I have to you. I thought it was because of everything we’d shared. And then the night I came to your place and you fixed me up, I thought it was just this physical thing.” Pink raced across his cheeks. “And it is most definitely a physical thing, but it wasn’t just that. I think part of me knew that from the very first time you said my name.” Now my pulse was pounding. He liked-liked me. Oh my God, this was unexpected. This was totally unplanned. It was an infinite, vast sea of unknown. “I know you deserve better, but I want to be better. I want to be that for you.”
“Every way he turned, his past was detonated, revealing tunnels and alternative routes under the packed, settled earth of the present.”
“Recollection builds up our personality. Our individuality is based on all the little pieces we assembled in the past. ( The past was her best friend )”
“A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives—of approving of some and disapproving of others.”
“Whether pleasant or dismal, the past is always a safe territory, if only because it is already experienced, and the species capacity to revert, to run backward -especially in its thoughts or dreams, since there we are safe as well - is extremely strong in all of us, quite irrespective of the reality we are facing. Yet this machinery has been built into us, not for cherishing or grasping the past (in the end, we don t do either), but more for delaying the arrival of the present - for, in other words, slowing down a bit the passage of time.”