Quotes about past
past effort age
In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort. Piet Mondrian
past destiny order
An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past Pierre Corneille
past dancing ballet
My dancing days are past. Philip Massinger
past errors people
All of us benefit from remembering our past. A people which remembers does not repeat past errors; instead, it looks with confidence to the challenges of the present and the future. Pope Francis
past views long
Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies. Pope Francis
past grandparent important
They are our future, and we must have a dialogue. This dialogue between the past and the future is important. Because of this I underline so much the relationship between the youth and grandparents. They must speak with. Pope Francis
past thinking personality
I love exploring the past lives, just because I think it adds so much dimension to a personality. Rachel Boston
past quality body
Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life. Peter Zumthor
past flow gaps
Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future. Peter Zumthor
past discovery may
Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made it remarkable in the past. Scientists on the same road may be expected to arrive at the same destination, often not far apart. Peter Medawar
past thinking data
Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge. Peter Medawar
past yesterday burden
When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it. Peter McWilliams
past reality thinking
All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all of the things that you shouldn't have done, accept them. You did (or did not) do them. That's Reality. That's happened. No changing the past. Peter McWilliams
past luxury wealth-and-happiness
Learn to forgive fully and completely. If you want health, wealth, and happiness, you can't afford the luxury of lugging around all those unforgiven, unforgotten past events. Let them go. Peter McWilliams
past stills ifs
Your past is not your past if it's still impacting your present. Pete Wilson
past lasts needs
Yes, I have inherited the past because I have acknowledged it at last? And, now that I have come to understand it, I no longer need to look back. Peter Ackroyd
past air bird
The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if the little bird which flew through the Anglo-Saxon banqueting hall, in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, gained the outer air and became the lark ascending in Vaughan Williams's orchestral setting. The unbroken chain is that of English music itself. Peter Ackroyd
past guy sake
I'm not into bands for the sake of being into bands. I've grown past that. There was a time in my life when I was that guy. Pete Wentz
past giving challenges
I don't have any personal challenges about throwing away the past. If you're not changing, you're giving others a chance to catch up. Pete Cashmore
past men joy
Lose what? A man only has a soul to be won or lost; apart from his life, he has nothing. Past or future lives do not matter - at the moment you are living this one, and you should do so with silent comprehension, joy and enthusiasm. What you must not lose is your enthusiasm. Paulo Coelho
past soul your-past
Visit your soul; don't visit your past. Paulo Coelho
past flames fire
Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present Paulo Coelho
past ends finding-out-the-truth
The future would end up finding out the truth about the past. Paulo Coelho
past people our-past
People never leave, we are always here in our past and future lives. Paulo Coelho
past people risk
Many people don't allow themselves to love...because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past. Paulo Coelho
past
It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future. Paulo Coelho
past doors names
One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters – whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished. Paulo Coelho
past people marketing
In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing. Peter Sotos
past reality practice
Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about the future and dwelling on the past. Zen practice is about appreciating your life in this moment. If you are truly aware of five minutes a day, then you are doing pretty well. We are beset by both the future and the past, and there is no reality apart from the here and now. Peter Matthiessen
past predicting
Charts are great for predicting the past. Peter Lynch
past peaceful ira
What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic. Peter Hain
past earth environment
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future. Rachel Carson
past healthy want
I want to be as healthy as I can be so I can make it past 50; make it past 60 and make it past 70. Questlove