Connections Quote by Gaston Bachelard

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

— Gaston Bachelard

The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings…

— Jack Kornfield

The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.

— Adele Parks

One thing that is likely to make you lose touch is if you keep in touch with the past too much.

— John Hurt

“The mind is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you? It constantly projects itself into the future…

— Eckhart Tolle

Sometimes the past is something you just can't let go of. And sometimes the past is something we'll do anything to forget. And sometimes…

— Anonymous

The past is only the past; you will always have the memories, but you do eventually have to let go no matter how hard…

— Chinier Bennett

“No one can make you dwell on the past. Control your thoughts and actions! Make your own decisions! Just because someone keeps bringing up…

— Michelle Word Hollis

To retrieve the past is no great effort, when the events to be recalled are so firmly imprinted on the mind. It is existence…

— Anonymous

The past is not clinging to you; YOU are clinging to the past. Once you are not clinging, the past simply EVAPORATES!

— Rajneesh

Letting go of the past doesnt mean forgetting it means knowing that you cannot change it.

— Anonymous

It's too easy, you see, to get trapped in the past. The past is very seductive. People always talk about the mists of time,…

— Susanna Kearsley