Nature Quote by Carl Rogers

“...[His] past had now risen, only the pleasures of it seeming to have lost their quality. Night and day, without interruption save of brief…

— George Eliot Middlemarch

“Man passes through the present with his eyes blindfolded. He is permitted merely to sense and guess at what he is actually experiencing. Only…

— Milan Kundera

“Something new and unexpected, something hitherto unknown and undreamt of, had taken place in him. He did not so much understand with his mind…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The past is a construct of the mind. The heart wants to live in the present. It is there one should seek the truth…

— Total Recall movie

“He would come to feel that history, even more than memory, distorts the present of the past by focusing on big events and making…

— Tracy Kidder

“Sometimes without conscious realization, our thoughts, our faith, out interests are entered into the past. We talk about other times, other places, other persons,…

— James McBride

“ I am always a different man; a reinterpretation of the man I was yesterday, and the day before, and all the days I…

— K.J. Bishop

“He listened yet more intently to what was within him, to the past, to see whether that voice of memory truly foretelling the future…

— Stefan Zweig

“The past has a way of walking around in the present, behaving as if it were alive.”

— Anatol Lieven

“The past was something that had happened to another version of himself, a version that could be lit and hurled away.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Past experiences are effluvial. Burn them. The now is important.”

— Sandra Harner

“In the rational light of day, he could tell himself that it was better this way, for both of them. The past was the…

— Kyra Dune