Long Quote by Haruki Murakami

One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.

— Tom Stoppard

Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur in…

— Jane Roberts

When the light is right and everything is working for me, I feel as tense as when making a difficult maneuver high on a…

— Galen Rowell

“Seeing your past - or a person from your - can for me at least be physically painful. I'm overwhelmed by a melancholic ache…

— John Green

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it…

— George Eliot

Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go…

— Paule Marshall

Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post…

— Paul Fussell

Just because the past taps you on the shoulder, it doesn't mean that you have to look back.

— Anonymous

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

When we practice paying attention, whether in meditation, yoga (moving mediation), or simply walking down the street, we can choose to be at ease,…

— Tara Stiles