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Random quote of the day:

“Black holes out there in the universe are nothing compared to the black holes in our own past. Those holes are much more than ordinary gaps. They have the power to destroy our ideas about ourselves and bring us face to face with nothingness.”

—Peter Kingsley, In the Dark Places of Wisdom

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Random quote of the day:

“It's so easy to think we have superior knowledge, that our understanding is better. We love to correct the errors of the past in terms of what we now think is true. But who's going to correct our errors? Everyone used to know that the sun goes round the earth; now everyone believes they know that the earth goes round the sun. The trouble is that every great step in understanding always demolishes and overturns the knowledge that went before. People will only look back on us in the way we look back at the past.

—Peter Kingsley, In the Dark Places of Wisdom

Random quote of the day:

“You can’t go neither forwards nor backwards into your daddy’s time nor your children’s if you have them. In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

―Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

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“Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends can only read the title.

—Virginia Woolfe, Jacob’s Room

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“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

—Patrick Henry, “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” Speech, March 23, 1775

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“In a time of drastic change one can be too preoccupied with what is ending or too obsessed with what seems to be beginning. In either case one loses touch with the present and with its obscure but dynamic possibilities. You do not need to know what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and embrace them with courage, faith and hope. In such an event, courage is the authentic form taken by love.

—Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

Random quote of the day:

“Your past is your shadow. It has form but no substance, except in the places you allow it to touch you.”

―Tananarive Due, Blood Colony

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Random quote of the day:

“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?”

—John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Random quote of the day:

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”

—John Banville, The Sea

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“The past is best left to itself. I find that when it touches the present, it vanishes like a forgotten dream.”

—The Countess de Longvic, in Tahir Shah’s The Caliph’s House

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“When your past calls, don’t answer; it has nothing new to say.”

—Deb Sofield, blog, September 10, 2016

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Random quote of the day:

“When your past calls, don’t answer; it has nothing new to say.”

—Deb Sofield, blog, September 10, 2016

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

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“The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.”

—G. K. Chesterton, “On St. George Revivified,” All I Survey

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.”

—David McCullough, speech, January 2016, Retail Industry Leaders Association Leadership Forum

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“The past is always a rebuke to the present…It’s a better rebuke because you can see what some of the costs were, what frail virtues were achieved in the past by frail men….The drama of the past that corrects us is the drama of our struggles to be human, or our struggles to define the values of our forebears in the face of their difficulties.

—Robert Penn Warren, Conversations with Robert Penn Warren, ed. Gloria L. Cronin, Ben Siegel