{"quotes":[{"text":"The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present.","author":"Mike Norton","tags":["heartbreak","illusion","love","nostalgia","sadness","the-past","time","torture","truth"],"id":3512,"author_id":"Mike+Norton"},{"text":"She didn't want to forget how deeply she had loved him, how important it had been to her; she felt as if to discard the memory would be a betrayal of her younger self.","author":"Harriet Evans","tags":["memories","nostalgia","the-past"],"id":6689,"author_id":"Harriet+Evans"},{"text":"Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["annoying-habits","attachment","bad-relationships","betrayal","bickering","boredom","boyfriend","cheating","competition","day-dreams","death","denial","desires","disappointments","divorce","drama","drama-seeking","dreams","ego","failures","false-memories","family","fantasy","fights","flirtation","funerals","girlfriend","how-it-was","incompatability","insecurity","jealousy","lies","marriage","marriage-difficulties","memories","memory-loss","nostalgia","obsession","personality","pictures","pride","real-life","sentimental","silence","stimulus-seeking","the-past","treachery","vacations"],"id":11803,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"We perceive, as from a great distance, a thousand years filled with dim shapes of men moving blindly, performing strangely, in an unreal shadowy world.","author":"Carl Lotus Becker","tags":["history","the-past"],"id":15287,"author_id":"Carl+Lotus+Becker"},{"text":"Wouldn't the world be a much better place if we didn't make it past the age of maybe 10? Think back to when we were younger, before we were so easily influenced by adults. We rebelled against everything that we now believe is impossible. Super Heroes still existed and we didn't hold grudges because 'sorry' was okay and as long as you still wanted to share your toys with me, nothing more needed to be said. Be 10 years old today everyone.","author":"D'Andre Lampkin","tags":["12","adult","age","before","better","better-life","better-man","better-person","better-place","better-self","better-with-age","better-world","betterment","children","compassion","hatred","influence","kind","school","the-past","wisdom","world","years","younger"],"id":17626,"author_id":"D%27Andre+Lampkin"},{"text":"You’re everything to me. But at best, I’m just a memory to you.","author":"Ranata Suzuki","tags":["always-yours","beautiful","beautiful","break-up","break-ups","breakup","breakup","breakup","broken-heart","deep-love","deep-love","deep-thoughts","feelings","feelings-and-emotions","feelings-of-love","grief","grief-and-loss","grief","grieving","heartbreak","heartbreak","heartbroken","heartbroken","i-miss-you","loss","loss-of-love","loss","loss","lost","lost-love","lost-love","love","love","love","love","love-and-sayings","memories","memories","memory","memory","missing-someone","missing-you","quote","quotes","ranata-suzuki","ranata-suzuki","reminders","reminisce","reminiscence","reminiscing","sad","sad","sad","sadness","secret-love","the-one-that-got-away","the-only-one","the-past","unrequited","unrequited-love","without-you"],"id":19213,"author_id":"Ranata+Suzuki"},{"text":"He was both everything I could ever want…And nothing I could ever have….","author":"Ranata Suzuki","tags":["always-yours","beautiful","beautiful","break-up","break-ups","breakup","breakup","breakup","broken-heart","deep-love","deep-love","deep-thoughts","feelings","feelings-and-emotions","feelings-of-love","grief","grief-and-loss","grief","grieving","heartbreak","heartbreak","heartbroken","heartbroken","i-miss-you","loss","loss-of-love","loss","loss","lost","lost-love","lost-love","love","love","love","love","love-and-sayings","memories","memories","memory","memory","missing-someone","missing-you","quote","quotes","ranata-suzuki","ranata-suzuki","reminders","reminisce","reminiscence","reminiscing","sad","sad","sad","sadness","secret-love","the-one-that-got-away","the-only-one","the-past","unrequited","unrequited-love","without-you"],"id":20404,"author_id":"Ranata+Suzuki"},{"text":"MOTHER TIME: Life goes by so very fast, my dears, and taking the time to reflect, even once a year, slows things down. We zoom past so many seconds, minutes, hours, killing them with the frantic way we live that it's important we take at least this one collective sigh and stop, take stock, and acknowledge our place in time before diving back into the melee. Midnight on New Year's Eve is a unique kind of magic where, just for a moment, the past and the future exist at once in the present. Whether we're aware of it or not, as we countdown together to it, we're sharing the burden of our history and committing to the promise of tomorrow.","author":"Hillary DePiano","tags":["being-busy","busy","goals","holiday","life","magic","midnight","new-year","new-year-s","new-year-s-eve","new-year-s-resolutions","new-years","new-years-eve","resolutions","slowing-down","taking-stock","the-past","the-present","time","tomorrow","tradition","traditions","yesterday"],"id":21103,"author_id":"Hillary+DePiano"},{"text":"My youth is like a scab: under it there is a wound that every day leaks blood. It disfigures me.","author":"Gottfried Benn","tags":["memory","pain","the-past"],"id":23015,"author_id":"Gottfried+Benn"},{"text":"A great mystery lies in the repetition and continuity of the renewal of that which is past. Culture perpetuates itself in memory and the big job is the reawakening of memory.","author":"Hans-George Gadamer","tags":["inspirational-life","meaning-of-life","memory","philosophy","the-past"],"id":24946,"author_id":"Hans-George+Gadamer"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":178,"pages":18,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}