Quotes about past
past world moments
There is no past. That's another illusion. Everything that has ever happened to you, to me, to anyone in this world, happened in the present moment. That's all there ever is. So your relationship to life isn't your relationship to your past, it's your relationship to the present moment. Wayne Dyer
past showing-up making-peace
If you don't make peace with your past it will keep showing up in your present.
past disappear
Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably. Walter Benjamin
past choices age
There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in. Virginia Woolf
past white long
She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage, this interminable --- this interminable life.
past feet giving
With her foot on the threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as she looked, and then, as she moved and took Minta's arm and left the room, it changed, it shaped itself differently; it had become, she knew, giving one last look at it over her shoulder, already the past.
past mrs-dalloway
for women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places;
past design research
There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past. William Bernbach
past past-present-future past-present
I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me. William Blake
past vision future-leaders
Create your future from your future, not your past. Werner Erhard
past reflection people
Dealing with the unknown, the unexpected, is a reflection for me musically of what's happening in the world, because people are learning how to dialog with each other without any past strategy or any kind of formula from the past. Wayne Shorter
past order usual
A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed time, can be savored of itself and without the usual adulteration of events that clog time like peanuts in brittle. Walker Percy
past clock
No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike. Wallace Stegner
past might belief
If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end, The future might stop emerging out of the past, Out of what is full of us; yet the search And the future emerging out of us seem to be one. Wallace Stevens
past history existence
Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians. Samuel Butler
past air heaven
The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
past use deny
What I assert, deny, question, in the present, I still can. But mostly I shall use the various tenses of the past. For mostly I do not know, it is perhaps no longer so, it is too soon to know, I simply do not know, perhaps shall never know. Samuel Beckett
past years cameras
Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one. Ryan Phillippe
past lust gold
I'm driven by history and our past. That's why I work in gold. It's in your veins. We've been lusting after gold since the beginning of time. God, glory, and gold. Waris Ahluwalia
past compare
It is hard to compare the eras, but Joe Jackson and Ty Cobb from the past, Sandy Koufax and Roger Clements from the present. W. P. Kinsella
past layers determined
Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of things, the past and present somehow coalescing or co-existing. W. G. Sebald
past way normal
The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for nothing about it could be called normal: most of it was absurd, and if not absurd, then appalling.
past government people
The attempt to live that way, the attempt to treat everybody - it fails all the time - but the attempt to treat people as equals is a good attempt. It's a very good attempt. And there have been very few governments that have come anywhere near it in the past. The Greeks began to, the Romans began to - they both failed. W. S. Merwin
past thinking visions-of-the-future
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce. Virginia Gildersleeve
past reality men
Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely. W. H. Auden
past cheerful population
It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.
past men history
Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.
past trying wish
How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once--through inexperience, as we now perceive--we missed that happiness we might have found! William Cowper
past roulette damage
The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews -- that we had been very, very fortunate in the past that the foam did not cause critical damage. Wayne Hale
past guilt moments
Even if you are loaded down with guilt about everything you did in the past, you still are experiencing the guilt in the moment.
past looks condemnation
To be born again is to let the past go, and look without condemnation upon the present.
past thinking animal
Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past. Townes Van Zandt
past community trying
If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color. Van Jones