Foolishness Quote by Lillian Hellman

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

— Jane Austen

The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it…

— Freya Stark

“While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Time is passing. Each day is a glorious opportunity to live and enjoy. Today I will let the past die - all the undone…

— Ruth Carter Stapleton

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

— Frederick William Robertson

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

— Anonymous

The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward…

— Susanna Kearsley

“...Everything we do is left in...like a trail out there, a big ring of decisions. Every action we take-" "And mistake." "And every mistake.…

— Hugh Howey

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

— Anonymous

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

— Margaret Bourke-White

The past ... is a dim avenue down which we may walk and find the diverging paths of terror and beauty and passion.

— Martha Ostenso