Every step Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“You are aware, my dear sir,—you must have observed it in your own experience,—that all human progress is in a circle; or, to use…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The past is bound to be fragmentary, bound to be reconstructed, bound to be reinvented. It serves only to collect the truths of today.…

— Amin Maalouf

“As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiences of the life…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Few people are capable of concerning themselves with the most recent past. Either the present holds us violently captive, or we lose ourselves in…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The past is the past, the future not yet risen, and even the present thought, as we experience it, becomes the past. The only…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“The past is history written in stone that can’t be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“[The past] has a way of hanging around, demanding we understand it and weave it into ourselves so that we can go on.”

— Margaret Coel

“The future was becoming past, everything vanished into the void, and reaching back to grasp for something, one came out clutching - what? A…

— Rohinton Mistry

“As we embark on a new chapter of our lives, our focus must be on what the future holds. We can look back from…

— Elizabeth E. Castillo

“In the past, nothing is irretrievably lost, but rather, on the contrary, everything is irrevocably stored and treasured. To be sure, people tend to…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Whether we’re searching for new dreams or rediscovering old ones, we can’t move forward without looking to the past. It’s the only place where…

— Rutger Bregman

“There is titillating pleasure in looking back at the past and asking oneself, 'What would have happened if...' and substituting one chance occurrence for…

— Vladimir Nabokov