„What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.“

— Haruki Murakami

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„It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.“
— Jim Butcher
„We are all what our pasts have made us,” Catarina said. “The accumulation of thousands of daily choices. We can change ourselves, but never erase what we’ve been.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.“
— Richard Rohr
„We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that’s of no use to the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. It’s always new.“
— Paulo Coelho
„Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.“
— Henry Rollins
„With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.“
— Haruki Murakami