But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.
You can't change what happened. Just like you can't change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.
The past is always with you. Some people want to be protected from this truth.
As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.
Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
I think in some way it's like that for all of us, living with the ghosts of things that used to be, or never were. We're all of us haunted by yesterday, and we got no choice but to keep marching into our tomorrows.
Nothing changes what alreaday happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.
Memories - you can't escape them, but you can't let them rule you either.
The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.
Your past wouldn’t frighten me,” I said, buckling my seat belt across my lap. “I’m guessing I’d be more appalled than anything.
