Human brain Quote by Jennifer Ashley

“We alter the past for the sake of the future, memories bending like light.”

— Matt Gallagher

“Life was made up of moments, big ones and little, the good and bad, dark and light. We never remembered the gray, the times…

— Madeline Sheehan

“The past was neither as good nor as bad as we suppose: it was just different. If we tell ourselves nostalgic stories, we shall…

— Tony Judt

“One couldn’t be selective when remembering the past. Ignore the turmoil, chaos and pain – and the truly great memories would not shine with…

— Karen Fowler

“reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was and the present worse…

— Season Vining

“However, there is something worse than idealizing the past—or presenting it to ourselves and our children as a chamber of horrors: forgetting it.”

— Tony Judt

“There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some imagined past.”

— Deborah L. Norris

“In a different connection, we have already spoken of the tendency there was to look into the past, to help make the present, with…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Some say there is enjoyment in looking back to painful experience past; but at this day I can scarcely bear to review the times…

— Charlotte Brontë

“When we bury the old, we bury the known past, the past we imagine sometimes better than it was, but the past all the…

— Thomas Lynch

“The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good…

— Peter Benchley

“Remembering the darkest days, of my past Helps me to brighten my view of my future”

— Gil Gonzales