Ancient Quote by Robert Holdstock

“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

We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves…

— Eckhart Tolle

Memories do not change, and change is the law of existence. If our dead, the closest, the most beloved, were to return to us…

— Teresa de la Parra

“I begin to realize that my memory is a great catacomb, and that below my actual standing-ground there is layer after layer of historical…

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children.

— Anonymous

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

And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light,…

— Peter Matthiessen

Memory is the place where our vanished days secretly gather. ... The past seems to be gone and absent. Yet the grooves in the…

— John O'Donohue

To retrieve the past is no great effort, when the events to be recalled are so firmly imprinted on the mind. It is existence…

— Anonymous

“Even people whose lives have been made various by learning sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual views of…

— George Eliot

When we enter a forest phase in our lives we enter a period of wandering and a time of potential soul growth. Here it…

— Jean Shinoda Bolen

So much of memory comes from the beginning of our lives when we know the world for the first time with a kind of…

— Susan Shreve