Choices Quote by Hilary Mantel

Why do we give up our hearts to the past?

— The Eagles

I am deeply activated by a sense of history, and have been since I was a tiny child. Really feeling that these were the…

— Jean Houston

We have to own even the darkest parts of our past, understand them and vow never to repeat them.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

— Jane Austen

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

— Anonymous

Our past can be an opportunity to learn to feel happy, to feel joy, to feel power, to feel passion in your life.

— Jay Shetty

Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy. Sometimes we don't feel that way because…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

— Margaret Atwood

“The past is not a burden; it is a scaffold, which brought us to this day. We are free to be whom we are—to…

— Trista Hendren

We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a…

— Will Rogers

We do things in our past that we need to do at the time.

— Patti Davis

There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us ashamed of…

— George Santayana