Quotes about past
past realization affirmation
I don't pray for anything, but I have used affirmations in the past a few times. They are really a bit more like realizations in that on some level they have already happened. Eckhart Tolle
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.
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 europe people
I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack;The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back. Henry Van Dyke
past-future fear-of-the-future future-and-present
Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
past scene form
This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.
past looks one-tree-hill-love
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.
past
We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history. John McCain
past people enemy
[Hillary Clinton] was saying, "We never going to do anything in Iraq, we're not going to do anything in Syria." Enemies, do whatever you want. Continue the largest humanitarian crisis, 7 million people displaced refugees. Do all this. We're not going to do anything. That is the type of stuff that is been happening for the past 7 1/2 years under President [Barack] Obama.
past proud might
Guilty she might be. But what human being was not? There were things in her past she needn't be ashamed of, things to be proud of; she wouldn't surrender so meekly to a condemning judgment. John Jakes
past moments abyss
We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into. John Jeremiah Sullivan
past men civilization
One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization. John Jay Chapman
past people important
One of the problems in the United States is the refusal on the part of our young people to remember or to want to remember, or to recognize the experiences of the past as being relevant, germane, important to the present and to the future. They simply don't want anything that's painful. They want to live in a painless society where everything is pleasant, and everything is joyful. John Hope Franklin
past cities denver
Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past. John Hickenlooper
past museums amusing
What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past. John Hodgman
past world states
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? John Guare
past guitar mysterious
There is something about guitars—maybe something magical—when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal. John Fahey
past office people
There's too many people that paint with a broad brush that we're all corrupt, we're all amoral. … And having these kinds of things happen, whether it's a Republican or Democratic senator — we certainly have had plenty of Democratic scandals in the past — we need people who are in office who will hold themselves to a little higher standard. John Ensign
past high-standards measurement
That's the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy. John Dos Passos
past punishment faults
Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment. John Donne
past looking-forward
They spend their time looking forward to the past. John Osborne
past play long
I've done festivals in the past where I'd be a guest, it was like, Wow, maybe someday I could play Town Hall - but that'll be a long way off. So it's very exciting. John Mulaney
past feet eight
The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head. John McGraw
past discipline effort
Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences of one's past and present acts. John Dewey
past positively
Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse.
past history imagination
Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals.