Edward Young Quotes

The thought of the weekends I used to have now makes me shake.

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

God was awfully good to me during the good days. I cherish the old days, but I don't miss them.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.

I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?

It's such a pleasurable experience to look back, and all of the fun I had just comes rushing back.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days.

The only picture I have of my childhood is the picture of me in kindergarten. I have this expression on my face - it's not a smile, it's not a frown. I swear to you, that's the girl who wakes up in the morning and who looks around her house and her life saying, 'I cannot believe how God has blessed me.'

When you reminisce, you don't say, 'Remember that time you got sued by so-and-so?' No, you say, 'Remember when we played here and it was unbelievable, and we went out for that incredible meal and that funny thing happened?' Those are the important moments.

I will never play in England again, but I still actually look back with fond memories at some moments.

For me, the past isn't deep and dark; I had a lot of fun I couldn't have had any other way.

When I look back, if I'd played something differently, it might not have gone the way it did. So I don't feel like going back to my twenties and changing anything.

You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything.

That's what life is all about: remembering someone and smiling!

I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.

In the end of 2012 no one looks back on this year and remembers the nights they got plenty of sleep

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever given alms appears, to add his mite of peace and comfort to my stock; and whenever the fire within me shall grow cold, to light my path upon this earth no more, I pray that it may be at such an hour as this, and when I love the world as well as I do now.

It’s not easy remembering the good times.

On that first day when we look back, either happily or with remorse, to the stony ways over which we have traveled, losing concern for that part of the journey which is yet to come, we have grown old.

I have a lot of good days I'd like to relive.

I ain't really sure, but it seems I remember the good times