Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher and poet

Marcel Pagnol

“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be”

- Marcel Pagnol, author, playwright and filmmaker

Lewis Carroll

"I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then."

- Lewis Carroll, author

Wendell Berry

"The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it."

- Wendell Berry, author, critic, academic