Past Quotes - Page 31

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.

Your past is your shadow. It has form but no substance, except in the places you allow it to touch you. (

I don't care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it.

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.

The past is what the present is doing now.

Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to become the past slip away. Believe that the real you is that which beckons from the future. If it is a sadder you, it will be a wiser one. And dawn will follow the darkness sooner or later. Rebirth can never come without death.

Nineteen thousand children [are] dying every day. Does it really matter that we're not walking past them in the street? Does it really matter that they're far away? I don't think it does make a morally relevant difference.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures have not passed through your mind, as through a sieve, and vanished, leaving not a rack behind, why then do you not, like a thankful guest, rise cheerfully from life's feast, and with a quiet mind go take your rest.

I don't know about you, but I don't feel that it's my vehicle that is essential. I don't know about you, but I don't feel that it's my education that is essential. I don't think what is essential about me is my house or my car or my clothes. What is essential about me? Well, I think what is essential is that I live and embrace life right now, wherever I am. I grab it in my arms! Don't spend time crying about yesterday-yesterday is over with! I forgive my past. I forgive the people who've hurt me. I don't want to spend the rest of my life blaming and pointing a finger.

Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

Christmas is ... a time to mark our progress through this earthly journey. Every December we can look back and marvel at the designs of God and realize how very little we are in control of the events that shaped the past year. Then, with hearts full, look to the celebration of that silent, holy night, and all its certainty. Because of Christmas, this we know: Christ was born for us. He is love, and the plans he has for us always surpass those of our own.

Millions of people are afraid of the past, the future, old age, insanity and death. But fear is a thought in your mind. This means that you are afraid of your own thoughts.

The silver friend knows your present and the gold friend knows all of your past dirt and glories. Once in a blue moon there is someone who knows it all, someone who knows and accepts you unconditionally, someone who is there for life.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.

The past is over... forget it. The future holds hope... reach for it.

Postulate 1. All chance systems of causes are not alike in the sense that they enable us to predict the future in terms of the past.

For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.

Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

I like hiring people based on a feeling - this person gets it - rather than what they've done in the past.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.