Quotes about past
past opportunity flying
As you all become more intimate with Me, with opportunities to come closer to Me, all that is good and bad within you comes out in sparks, as it were . . . all the impressions of the past, the accumulations of past sanskaras - of all illusory things, which includes both good and bad - come out. My proximity, the intimacy with Me, just changes that mass of sanskaras, and sometimes you find sparks of good and bad flying out. Meher Baba
past attachment imagination
Worry is the product of feverish imagination working under the stimulus of desires... It is a necessary resultant of attachment to the past or to the anticipated future, and it always persists in some form or other until the mind is completely detached from everything.
past worry ego
There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most difficult things not to worry about anything. Worry is experienced when things go wrong, but in relation to past happenings it is idle merely to wish that they might have been otherwise. The frozen past is what it is, and no amount of worrying is going to make it other than what it has been. But the limited ego-mind identifies itself with its past, gets entangled with it and keeps alive the pangs of frustrated desires.
past men sight
Though one should live through all the time from Adam and all the time to come before the judgment day doing good works, yet he who, energising in his highest, purest part, crosses from time to eternity, verily in the sight of God this man conceives and does far more than anyone who lives throughout all past and future time, because this now includes the whole of time. One master says that in crossing over time into the now each power of the soul will surpass itself. . . .
past order silence
Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was. Mary Daly
past empowering pathways
The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future. Mary Catherine Bateson
past parent realization
When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return ...
past average years
Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out. Marty Meehan
past can-do
You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it. Martina Navratilova
past forgotten unforgettable
When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable Martin Amis
past people use
Faced with the widespread destruction of the environment, people everywhere are coming to understand that we cannot continue to use the goods of the earth as we have in the past ... [A] new ecological awareness is beginning to emerge which rather than being downplayed, ought to be encouraged to develop into concrete programs and initiatives. Pope John Paul II
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.
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.
past thinking personality
I love exploring the past lives, just because I think it adds so much dimension to a personality. Rachel Boston
past talking our-future
You did what was right for those who agreed with you, and that is all in the past. We are talking about our future. Oliver, we cannot live as we did. Rachel Caine
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.