Joana

“The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, Unexpected Blessings

“Study the past if you would define the future.”
― Confucius

“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
― William Golding

“Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history.”
― norman doidge, The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science