The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.
Amy Bloom
Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time, if nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time, particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then it is an empty thing, doomed to produce nothing but frustration and an even greater sense of failure.
R.A. Salvatore
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Albert Camus
You can`t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Charles F. Kettering
Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane.
Doug Larson
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
Margaret Fairless Barber
Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
Doug Larson
The good old times -- all times when old are good.
Lord Byron
Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect!
Owens Lee Pomeroy
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.
Robertson Davies
Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
Jack London
Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: You find the present tense and the past perfect.
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