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The Past Quotes
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Talking about the past is like a cat’s trying to explain climbing down a ladder (The Past Quotes)
Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough (The Past Quotes)
If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness (The Past Quotes)
Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past. And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence. Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own... It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning (The Past Quotes)
Whatever we do must be in accord with human nature. We cannot drive people; we must direct their development. The general policy of the past has been to drive; but the era of force must give way to the era of knowledge, and the policy of the future will be to teach and lead, to the advantage of all concerned (The Past Quotes)
The young women of today, free to study, to speak, to write, to choose their occupation, should remember that every inch of this freedom was bought for them at a great price. It is for them to show their gratitude by helping onward the reforms of their own times, by spreading the light of freedom and of truth still wider. The debt that each generation owes to the past it must pay to the future (The Past Quotes)
I finally came to terms with manic depression and lithium. I’ve taken lithium regularly for the past few years and have had no further bouts with manic depression (The Past Quotes)
I’m not someone who thinks about the past. I’m so busy thinking about what I’m going to do today (The Past Quotes)
How is it that we have created an economic system that tells us it is cheaper to destroy the earth and exhaust its people than to nurture them both? Is it rational to have an pricing system which discounts the future and sells off the past? How did we create an economic system that confused capital liquidation with income? (The Past Quotes)
Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change (The Past Quotes)
When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on (The Past Quotes)
God has presented this opportunity for us and we are stepping up to the plate. The pastor knows the area we work in and makes it much easier (The Past Quotes)
Water is finite and we have not done a great job of managing it in the past (The Past Quotes)
God can only be of service to me and I to him, not in the past, nor in the future, but only right now in this moment (The Past Quotes)
For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at it, although the cost in money, in lives, and in suffering was always significant. Only in the past century have large numbers of people begun to question the basic assumption of civilized societies that war is inevitable and often useful (The Past Quotes)
Mindful grief means mourning and letting go of the past without expectation, fear, censure, blame, shame, control and so forth. Without such mindful grief, neither past nor person can be laid to rest (The Past Quotes)
We live at the threshold of a universal recognition that the human being is not mere matter, but a potent, energetic field of consciousness. Modalities of the past millennium are quickly giving way to breakthrough technologies wherein we heal ourselves at the level of all true healing, which is spirit (The Past Quotes)
Worry is worthless. It can’t change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment (The Past Quotes)
The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you between loss and longing with nowhere to go at all (The Past Quotes)
Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present (The Past Quotes)
Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future (The Past Quotes)
Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come (The Past Quotes)
I feel life I’ve started a new chapter in my life, and I need to live the past behind (The Past Quotes)
It doesn’t seem to be worth wasting a lot of energy on attempting to rewrite the past (The Past Quotes)
Anyone who promises that everything can be made the way it used to be with the recipes of the past betrays in reality the people he claims to represent. We must never participate in this betrayal and we must never allow this betrayal (The Past Quotes)
Data are pointing to very strong growth in the fourth quarter. The pessimistic viewpoint, which has seen its grip on reality slip to the last knuckle in the past few months, is now holding on by its fingernails (The Past Quotes)
Beginning today, I will create a new future by creating a new me. No longer will I dwell in a pit of despair, moaning over squandered time and lost opportunity. I can do nothing about the past. My future is immediate. I will grasp it in both hands and carry it with running feet. When I am faced with the choice of doing nothing or doing something, I will always choose to act! I seize this moment. I choose now (The Past Quotes)
It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future (The Past Quotes)
Each day of your life, as soon as you open your eyes in the morning, you can square away for a happy and successful day. It’s the mood and the purpose at the inception of each day that are the important facts in charting your course for the day. We can always square away for a fresh start, no matter what the past has been. It’s today that is the paramount problem always. Yesterday is but history (The Past Quotes)
In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch (The Past Quotes)