“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”

“Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!"
He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.”

“You can't undo the past but you can certainly not repeat it.”

“You can’t change the past, it just is”

“You can’t go back, Ever. You can’t change the past. It just is…. This is our destiny. Not yours.”

“The traditions of the past are very great in their own place, in the past, but I do not see why we should merely repeat them and not go farther. In the spiritual development of the consciousness upon earth the great past ought to be followed by a greater future.”

“Sometimes you can’t let go of the past without facing it again.”

“You can’t help being young, but it’s past time that you stopped being stupid.”

“Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.”

“…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.”