Circumstances Quote by Karen Armstrong

“You must confront your past. At some time or other you must confront your past. It doesn't flash before your eyes, I knew that,…

— Anonymous

As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it…

— Desmond Tutu

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

— Gaston Bachelard

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

— Bret Easton Ellis

The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.

— Boyle Roche

Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.

— Diane Setterfield

The past isn't fixed and frozen in place. Instead, its meaning changes as life unfolds.

— Parker J. Palmer

Think there is nothing we can do to change the past, so we have to look at the present to make sure that the…

— Heinz Fischer

Dwelling on the past only blinds you to the future.

— Anonymous

It's only until we confront the darkness of our past that we can responsibly move forward.

— Winston Duke

The more we talk about the past, the less we heal from it.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.

— Michael Cibenko