Mark Scruby on Memory and Emotions:
We are nothing more than the sum of memories. They are the basis of our emotions. We use them to mark out who we are and the journey we have taken in life; they inform how we behave in the present and the decisions we'll make in the future.via The Book: The Terrace House - Reimagined for the Australian Way of Life (page 155 Cloud Space).
Thai Nguyen on Embracing the Present:
There’s no point dwelling in the past and letting it define you, nor getting lost and anxious about the future. But in the present moment, you’re in the field of possibility - how you engage with the present moment will direct your life.via 10 Powerful Life Lessons from The Alchemist by Thai Nguyen.
Never a better place to embrace the present, than the moments before, during and after a Dragon Boat race.
Colin Pantell on Photography and Understanding:
the act of photography [can be a] form of personal understanding of [our] own pastvia Dear Japanese: A genuine struggle with the past by Colin Pantell.
I have felt a presence greater than myself, over my right ahoulder, twice in my life. Both times were since Jenny's passing. Will write about it and another moment one day. Have tried not to understand it beyond acknowledging that there is soemthing beyond me that I will probably never quite comprehend or understand. Just happy that I had someone looking over my shoulder when It counted. As the song goes Riding on the Wings of an Angel. Nice photo Rachel.
Joel Meyerowitz on Photography and the Past, Present and Future :
We can never imagine the work we might make in the future – that’s part of the wonder of all art making – but when we are in the present and can look back, as I can, over 50 years of work, there seems to be a continuous path that unwinds in a way that sometimes seems inevitable.via A Full House by Joel Meyerowitz.
Spencer Lum on Possibility and the Unknown:
Possibility is fueled by the unknown.The question is not whether it’s too much to give up your history. It’s whether you give up too much by holding on to it. How much of your future are you willing to sacrifice at the alter of the past?
via Don’t Trust Yourselves by Spencer Lum.
Rebecca Norris Webb writes:
sometimes the best way forward is to turn and take a long look back.
via My Dakota: American Photo by Rebecca Norris Webb.
A window is normally a pretty good way to look back as well as forwards, and without turning around.
Photography is the medium of nostalgia (*): any photograph by construction shows us the past (*).via PROJECT PROFILES: Juan Aballe’s Country Fictions (*) by Jorg Colberg (*).
This is a time of nostalgia: regardless of where you look, we have become backwards looking, rehashing what was there in all kinds of ways [..]
We can’t let go of the past because we can’t stand the present (*).
Is that what it is?
Give up the past (*). We’ve all been hurt, we all [..] made mistakes (*), we’ve all had challenges (*) and faced our own battles (*). But don’t let your past define your future (*). Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but they don’t define our future – we are responsible for who we become and for our own happiness (*).via Are you happy ? … 10 things to give-up in exchange for happiness (*) by Jeremy Rolleston (*).
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill
