“Reality is always the story of a past, and what I love about the past is—it’s over.”

— Byron Katie

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

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American spiritual writer 1942

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

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“But… what about us? What about the past?" she asks blankly.
"The past isn't real. it's just a dream," I say. "Don't mention the past.”

Bret Easton Ellis book American Psycho

Source: American Psycho

“Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.”

Lawrence Lessig (1961) American academic, political activist.

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“A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.”

Michael Ende book The Neverending Story

Source: The Neverending Story

“We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that’s of no use to the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. It’s always new.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Aleph (2011)

“Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Variant: Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.
Source: Invisible Monsters

“People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“The past is not yet past. When things happen, the only way we can make sense of it is by telling the story about the past – realising where prejudices come from. And the point would be not only to spin a story about racial violence but to tell how our ancestors have bravely and creatively overcome these things.”

David Chariandy (1969) Canadian writer

On the past and prejudices in “David Chariandy: ‘To make sense of prejudice, tell the story of the past’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/14/david-chariandy-ive-been-meaning-to-tell-you-father-advice-to-daughter in The Guardian (2019 Apr 14)

“You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them?”

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

“Reality is always kinder than the story we tell about it.”

Byron Katie (1942) American spiritual writer

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“Reality is always the story of a past, and what I love about the past is—it’s over.”

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