Quotes on Our Past

In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is the fertile ground of creativity and freedom.

The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.

People never leave, we are always here in our past and future lives.

I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.

Much as we wish, not one of us can bring back yesterday or shape tomorrow. Only today is ours, and it will not be ours for long, and once it is gone it will never in all time be ours again. Thou only knowest what it holds in store for us, yet even we know something of what it will hold. The chance to speak the truth, to show mercy, to ease another’s burden. The chance to resist evil, to remember all the good times and good people of our past, to be brave, to be strong, to be glad.

Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?