{"quotes":[{"text":"There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.","author":"Eleanor Brown","tags":["life","past-and-future"],"id":13295,"author_id":"Eleanor+Brown"},{"text":"It seems sometimes that we get so caught up in missing the past, or looking forward to the future, that we forget that this, right here and now, was once the days we longed for and will soon be the ones we miss.","author":"John A. Ashley","tags":["inspirational","living-in-the-moment","living-in-the-present","memories","nostalgia","past-and-future"],"id":19839,"author_id":"John+A.+Ashley"},{"text":"Just married! A bright past is ahead of them!","author":"Ljupka Cvetanova","tags":["aphorism","bright","bright-future","bright-past","get-married","humor","humorous","irony","luck","marriage","marriage-life","married-life","men-and-women","past-and-future","quote","about-love","about-marriage","respect","sarcasm","self-respect"],"id":20603,"author_id":"Ljupka+Cvetanova"},{"text":"It is a fight to let go of a past that refuses to withdraw its sticky tentacles from your present.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["forgiveness","letting-go","moving-on","past","past-and-future","past-and-present","past-life","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich"],"id":28450,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence.","author":"T.S. Eliot","tags":["clarity-of-perception","historical","historical-perspective","history-repeating-itself","human-perception","jared-wheat","past","past-and-future","perception","presence","the-past"],"id":29247,"author_id":"T.S.+Eliot"},{"text":"You'll never cross an emotional bridge, if you keep rushing back to the other side.","author":"T.F. Hodge","tags":["acceptance-of-oneself-and-others","awareness","controlling-your-emotions","emotional-pain","emotions","growth","growth","healing-the-past","move-on","moving-forward","past-and-future","to-live-by","self-help","self-improvement","strength-and-courage","strength-through-adversity","wisdom"],"id":35003,"author_id":"T.F.+Hodge"},{"text":"Human migration is an important part of our ancestral story. The places we live shape us, the places we leave behind forges our history, and the places we might travel to becomes our mysterious future.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["past","past-and-future","past-and-present","places","travel","travel","traveling"],"id":49972,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"You invoke a new futurewhen you envision your pastin the light of your present.","author":"Eric Micha'el Leventhal","tags":["awakening","awareness","change","creation","destiny","enlightenment","faith","fate","forgiveness","free-will","freedom","future","guilt","healing","hope","imagination","imagine","inspiration","invocation","know-thyself","past-and-future","past-and-present","power","present","present-moment","self-awareness","shame","spiritual","time","transformation","vision"],"id":50763,"author_id":"Eric+Micha%27el+Leventhal"},{"text":"From inside the tavern came the sounds of a fiddle being tuned, various plucks and tentative bowings, then a slow and groping attempt at Aura Lee, interrupted every few notes by unplanned squeaks and howls. Nevertheless the beautiful and familiar tune was impervious to poor performance, and Inman thought how painfully young it sounded, as if the pattern of its notes allowed no room to imagine a future clouded and tangled and diminished.","author":"Charles Frazier","tags":["music","past-and-future"],"id":57439,"author_id":"Charles+Frazier"},{"text":"Our essential humanity is dependent upon humankind’s ability to join the past and the future with the present. Recollections and future projections grant us the ability to cogitate, analyze, and evaluate. Contrasting memories enable us to ascertain what is true and false, and determine what is charming, attractive, stunning, or sublime. Remembrance of the past serves to comfort us, awareness of the future offers us hope, while our dutiful engagement in the present is capable of arresting our complete attention.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["awareness","awareness","future","hope","hope","memories","memories","memory","past","past-and-future","past-and-present","recollection","recollections","remembrance"],"id":62612,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":46,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}