"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
"Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions,
false memories, false namings of real events."
—Adrienne Rich
"The past is what you remember, imagine you remember,
convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember."
—Harold Pinter
"Bring the past only if you're going to build from it."
—Doménico Cieri Estrada
"The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you will see."
—Winston Churchill
"What happened in the past that was painful
has a great deal to do with what we are today."
—William Glasser
"Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass,
of glory in the flower; we will grieve not, rather find strength
in what remains behind."
—William Wordsworth