life on planet earth on Nostalgia

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”

Don’t allow yourself to become so nostalgic, rigid, or judgmental about the way God chooses to demonstrate his message that you miss a new way forward.

“The good ol’ days weren’t always good and tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems.”

Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

In her book Keeping Place: Reflections on the Meaning of Home , Jen Pollock Michel reflects on the nature of home in a transient age. In this short excerpt, Michel focuses on the language associate...

Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter's deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined s...

According to the groundbreaking book The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, his research tells us that cravings drive our “habit loops.” Some of us crave escape or relaxation through the habit of a g...

When God first nudged me in the direction of developing The Pastor’s Workshop, I threw myself wholeheartedly into the collection and curation of great content. It was, on the whole, a rather foolhardy...

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

A people with no memory of its past is like a mature man who has lost all recollection of his youth.

We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

On a trip to France during college, I (Cyd) was walking through a historic garden in Paris with my older sister. Rounding one of the reflecting pools, we both caught a familiar scent and stopped dead ...

“I remember it like it was yesterday. Of course, I don’t really remember yesterday all that well.”

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

When we remember the past, it is not only the past; it breaks into the present and gains a new lease on life.

It is not the experience of today that drives us mad; it is the remorse or bitterness for something which happened yesterday.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

There is a deep longing in every human heart to return to our ancestral home. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young sing about this in their song “Woodstock”: “We got to get ourselves back to the garden.” T...

"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

Home represents humanity’s most visceral ache—and our oldest desire.

I believe there are visions that come to us only in memory, in retrospect.

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

Nothing cures ingratitude as quickly as a good memory.

“When you see a thing like that, a thing that becomes a newsreel, you begin to feel you are a carrier of some solemn scrap of history.”

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.