I do go back and read entries in the past, from time to time.  Usually the way that I do it is that I go back to entries in the same month, but in previous years.  Kind of a snapshot of "What did I write, this time, last year?  What was I like?  What was happening to me?"

From last year I found this one:

But who will praise you for the things you =didn't= do?  The words you left unsaid?  What will your reward be when you stay the same?  When you are the last one who hangs on, you will be all alone.  And what then?