Burial of the Past

“Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.”

“In our family we don't divorce men - we bury them”

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."

"I like men who have a future and women who have a past."

"Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past."

"If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future."

"The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present."

"One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged."

"There is a way to look at the past. Don’t hide from it. It will not catch you–if you don’t repeat it."

"If tears could build a stairway, and memory a lane, I'd walk right up to Heaven, and bring you home again"

"When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure"