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Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Lucy, you're as transparent as a pane of glass, and there's not a speck of guile to be seen in you. Yet in a way you're a mystery to me. — Madeleine Brent

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least. — Mark Twain

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other. — Al Franken

Daydreaming of the past and longing for the future may provide comfort but will not take the place of living in the present. — Thomas S. Monson

Men perish because they cannot join the beginning with the end. — William Hare

The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards. — E. M. Forster

What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved. — Lisa See

Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action. — Brenda Shoshanna

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

That distant longing and determination, that knowledge that he was born for something greater than his small past or his sleepy present. — Leon Logothetis

Grace makes us inwardly RIGHT so we walk outwardly UPRIGHT — John Paul Warren

I miss my old life — Richard C. Morais

Frine gestured toward her. 'This new power of yours is dangerous, Kara.'
She shrugged.
'These are dangerous times. — S.M. Boyce

She made ugly things beautiful, somehow, and he would never understand it. "

pg 346 — Veronica Roth

There is a longing for a supposedly simple and virtuous past that is almost universal among the people of a complex and vicious society. — Isaac Asimov

I knew I had a lot to say. Not politically - politics have always confused me - but perhaps spiritually. — Jane Gardam

People kept on longing for meaning and hope, but the annals of the past are a muddy story of chaos only. — Richard Flanagan

Memory is a great deceiver, grief and longing cloud the past, and recollections, even vivid ones, fade. — Daniel Alarcon

Longing for the past keeps us looking back; but hoping in a brighter future keeps us looking up! EL — Evinda Lepins

Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons. — James Russell Lowell

The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some imagined past. — Deborah L. Norris

Perfect joy could not be joy alone but must be a joy that somehow contains our past grief and sadness and longing. — Amy Alznauer

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. — Judi Dench

She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she ... — Gregory Maguire