A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and…

Quote by Anna Mary Robertson Moses

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A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one...

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one...

I look back on my life like a good day's work; it was done and...

I look back on my life like a good day's work; it was done and...

Even God cannot change the past.

Even God cannot change the past.

It is one thing putting away the past, and quite another to tape its mouth...

It is one thing putting away the past, and quite another to tape its mouth...

The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is...

The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is...

We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past...

We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past...

The past is over... forget it. The future holds hope... reach for it.

The past is over... forget it. The future holds hope... reach for it.

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have...

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have...

In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the...

In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the...

The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.

The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.

Dear past, please stop tapping at my shoulders. I dont want to look back...

Dear past, please stop tapping at my shoulders. I dont want to look back...

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should...

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should...

Study the past if you would divine the future

Study the past if you would divine the future

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to...

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to...

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound,...

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound,...

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as...

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as...

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were...

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were...

As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery...

As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery...