Remembrance of things past, I do that all the time.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

You think you will never forget any of this, you will remember it always just the way it was. But you can't remember it the way it was. To know it, you have to be living in the presence of it right as it is happening. It can return only by surprise. Speaking of these things tells you that there are no words for them that are equal to them or that can restore them to your mind. And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak of it, and you must be thankful for living day by day, moment by moment, in this presence.
But you have a life too that you remember. It stays with you. YOu have lived a life in the breath and pulse and living light of the present, and your memories of it, remember now, are of a different life in a different world and time. When you remember the past, you are not remembering it as it was. You are remembering it as it is. It is a vision or a dream, present with you in the present, alive with you in the only time you are alive.

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

You remind me of everything that followed.

Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.

We are born and have our being in a place of memory. We chart our lives by everything we remember from the mundane moment to the majestic. We know ourselves through the art and act of remembering. Memories offer us a world where there is no death, where we are sustained by rituals of regard and recollection

Everything that I have known
You'll write to me to remind
Me of, and likewise I shall do
The whole past I'll recount to you

If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream.

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, dont you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.