The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.
Change your life by changing your thoughts.
We cannot go back in time and change the past but we can repent.
Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.
The Bible - the wisest document ever known in human existence, which defies the ravages of time and change because it contains the truth that cannot be changed or invalidated.
Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.
You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's far enough in the past, that's when you think, 'Now I have to write something new.'
A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"