Quotes about past
past energy physicist
Without perceiving things through the old filter of past conditioning and conceptualization, one can sense the universe is intensely alive. Even so-called inanimate objects - I often pick up little objects and just look at them and sense that they are alive. Physicists actually confirm that what we perceive as dead matter is not dead at all. Everything is an intensely alive energy field. That aliveness is only an aspect of the aliveness or life that I am. Eckhart Tolle
past mindfulness absence
The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.
past self people
Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.
past sight would-be
You're not the way everyone says you are," Kaye said, looking at him so fiercely that he couldn't meet her gaze. "I know you're not." "You know nothing of me," he said. He wanted to punish her for the trust he saw on her face, to raze it from her now so that he would be spared the sight of her when that trust was betrayed. He wanted to tell her he found her impossibly alluring, at least half enchanted, body bruised and scratched, utterly unaware she would not live past dawn. He wondered what she would say in the face of that. Holly Black
past different constructs
It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all artifice.
past long psychology
Psychology has a long past, but only a short history. Hermann Ebbinghaus
past rivers siddhartha
The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future. Hermann Hesse
past perfect meditation
During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.
past men lizards
Each man carries the vestiges of his birth; the slime and eggshells of his primeval past with him to the end of his days. Some never become human, remaining frog, lizard, ant. Some are human above the waist, fish below.
past lines may
In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given line by which he may chart his course, only one limit: the past. Jose Ortega y Gasset
pastime
The national pastime is juiced, Jose Canseco
past thinking trying
I feel I have proved myself just as much as everybody else does. I usually don't think about the past too much. I just try to perform the routines I have been practicing. Jordyn Wieber
past labyrinth world
I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . . . I felt myself to be, for an unknown period of time, an abstract perceiver of the world. Jorge Luis Borges
past polemics precursor
Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
past vocabulary facts
In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future." -- Essay: "Kafka and his Precursors
past should accomplished
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
past phases faces
The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody.
past people long
I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks. Jonathan Tropper
past government support
no diplomatic intervention will ever be made by any government that I lead in support of any individual terrorist's life. We have only indicated in the past, and will maintain a policy in the future, of intervening diplomatically in support of Australian nationals who face capital sentences abroad. Kevin Rudd
past data giving
While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the future. Kevin Spacey
past acting schedules
I decided to not be so dismissive of my music in favor of my acting. Acting has been such a consistent thing for me; a lot of times in the past, I wouldn't have had the confidence with my music to really make it a part of my schedule. I would easily push it to the side, or I would easily take up time that was needed for it. I'm not that way anymore. Now, I really want to make everything work. I want to continue to do both at the highest level that I can. Keke Palmer
past stories time-travel
Einstein theorized that time travel was possible, but he was looking at it as unidirectional, going forward. Traveling into the past is much more problematic, as countless stories have demonstrated! Kelley Armstrong
pasta underground-music pure
There is nothing I like more than pure underground music Kurt Cobain
past years pits
Thank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years.
past perception cooperation
Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past Khaleda Zia
past amir kites
It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Khaled Hosseini
past remembrance longing
And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing. Khalil Gibran
past carpe-diem locks
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it. Jonathan Swift
past men talking
For poetry, he's past his prime, He takes an hour to find a rhyme; His fire is out, his wit decayed, His fancy sunk, his muse a jade. I'd have him throw away his pen, But there's no talking to some men.
past secular-society government
Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past. Jonathan Sacks
past infinite paralyzed
The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present. Jonathan Safran Foer
past light sides
It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.
past technology years
We can see how the role of mobile has changed in past 20 years. It is a perfect example of how one innovation can change an entire era. Narendra Modi