Past Quotes - Page 22

Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.

I was astonished by his complete lack of self-pity. Morrie, who could no longer dance, swim, bathe, or walk; Morrie, who could no longer answer his own door, dry himself after a shower, or even roll over in bed. How could he be so accepting? I watched him struggle with a fork, picking at a piece of tomato, missing it the first two times - a pathetic scene, and yet I could not deny that sitting in his presence was almost magically serene, the same calm breeze that soothed me back in college.

Oh what times! Oh what standards!

We live in the present we dream of the future but we learn eternal truths from the past.

...it is the fear of the past; a fear not merely of the evil in the past, but of the good in the past also. The brain breaks down under the unbearable virtue of mankind. There have been so many flaming faiths that we cannot hold; so many harsh heroisms that we cannot imitate; so many great efforts of monumental building or of military glory which seems to us at once sublime and pathetic. The future is a refuge from the fierce competition of our forefathers.

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.

There are times in every life when the past acquires a particular resonance, when we grow sensitive to sounds and voices normally beyond the range of hearing. The past shades into present always and everywhere, but only rarely do we acknowledge the process; only rarely does some trigger force us to recognize ourselves as citizens of that frontier.

You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it...fictionalize it, in a word, and put it away on a shelf - your book, your romanced autobiography. We are all in the flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo sapiens.

Sometimes in order to appreciate your future, you must remember the past.

Every lesson you take from your past immediately turns into a stairs to the light!

Our past cannot be changed, and to be preoccupied with it is inefficient in time and effort. Likewise, by fretting over the future, we only exhaust ourselves, making us less able to effectively respond when the future is actually upon us. By worrying about a mishap that may or may not take place, we’re forced to undergo the event twice—once when imagining it and once again if and when we actually experience it.

Stop looking back when your future is ahead of you

Everything we think we know, everything we think we see, everything we believe we feel, taste, smell, or hear, everything we “remember” (our pasts), everything we want to happen (our futures), everything that has ever existed or will ever exist, only exists right now. All of these things are nothing more than electric signals being passed through our brains and bodies, right now. It is all energy flowing through us right now. “The past” exists only in our minds. We are the ones who bring it into reality. We are the ones who bring it into the present. We are the ones who make it “real”.

We ourselves, will resurrect the memory in order to savor it and carry it forth into the world. We will fling it at one another for laughs. Distort it. We will toss the story into the air at parties and howl over its ripeness. Degraded as it was, we will degrade it further. Make it more swollen. We shall render it impossibly awful, making of it the mythology of ourselves. A comfort. Proof of the trials we've survived.

You can’t clean your dirty past as if you are cleaning a dirty window! All you can do is to create a clean future!

When our consciousness has become a haven of illusions, our mind may have a hard time to fight the maze in our thinking. Only anchor points from our past and the innocence of our childhood might give back the core of what we are. (“Not without the past”)

Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.

Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference.

The future has no memory of your past or present. You are free to make it anything you choose. So make it great!

It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be felt on certain strange days, when the streets were dark with rain and harmful ideas.

…Maybe I’ll be watching super-8 home videos,” Alecto told her, smiling bleakly. “I love my super-8 camera, it’s an Eastman Kodak one… Kodak stopped manufacturing them, the world went digital and now Kodak has stopped making Kodachrome film and all kinds of traditional film products… it’s sad.” “Well, uh… well, have fun watching your home movies then,” Mandy finished, but she didn’t have the slightest idea what he was talking about.

It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

Truth however bitter can be accepted and woven into a design for living.

Your past has already been written and the words cannot be changed, but your future is waiting to be written; make it a bestseller.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

That's when it hit me. I had to go through a lot of bad relationships first, but I'd finally found him. My very own Prince Charming. Turns out they do exist.Touché, Cinderella. Touché.

The past is uselessto me now:an old suitcasewith mould in the lining,heavy even when empty.

Always strive to be a better person. No matter what. Do not try to be better than your fellow man but to be better than you were yesterday. Compare yourself only to your past you. Any bit of progress that you make of improving yourself, no matter how small, makes a positive impact in your life and in the lives of others around you. A little bit every day. Try.

Come to me.Why must you ruin this moment?You are burdened with thought.Burdened with the pastand expectations of the future.You are burdened with your self.Cast these aside by laughing at yourself.And love,for what more is there than to love me?Take me nowand let it be heaven for us.

Your past history is NOT an excuse.

Oh this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is!

The age of lost innocence varies for each person. Some lose it when they learn that their childhood fantasies are merely myth, while others lose theirs due to trauma. As adults, we often look down our noses at those who manage to retain their innocence; we scoff at these few as being immature or irresponsible. Could it be that we hide our envy behind the cloudy eyes of our lost innocence?

Therefore, the places in which we have experienced day dreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as day-dreams these dwelling-places of the past remain in us for all the time.

Past, I am letting you go. Future, I will see you tomorrow. Present, I love you, live in you, celebrate you, and will never let you go.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.

To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.

The weight of your baggage never stops true love from taking flight.

In the New Year, never forget to thank to your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future!

I can’t take back the past, but I can fight for the future.

If we listen, we shall learn.

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

...the past is in us, and not behind us. Things are never over.

We make our own symbols, after the event has passed and begun to spoil.

Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.

Past beings interact with present ones because life and death are a continuum and expiration entails no loss of vital essence.

1 tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

You can't just wipe away your history.

Life was simpler when we thought no one cares about what we think.

Yesterday was a beautiful tune on the lips of life and today is a silent secret.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

What was the point of trying to run away if people were going to insist on reminding you of what you were running from?

Every man carries his own past with him," Hayt said.

Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

I got married. A bright past is ahead of me!

Sometimes, it is best that the past stays buried.

Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

When you dive into your past, remember to go back up quickly.

Mindfulness helps you understand that the past is gone, can’t be changed and all the lessons are already learned.

What happens now will not matter in the future.