Quotes about past
past inner-peace important
There was a time - when I attained inner peace - when I died, utterly died to myself. I have since renounced my previous identity. I can see not reason to dwell upon my past, it is dead and should not be resurrected. Don't inquire of me - ask me about my message. It is not important to remember the messenger, just remember the message. Peace Pilgrim
past long-ago should-have
How often are you worrying about the present moment? The present moment is usually all right. If you're worrying, you're either agonizing over the past which you should have forgotten long ago, or else you're apprehensive over the future which hasn't even come yet. We tend to skip over the present moment which is the only moment God gives any of us to live.
past together tradition
To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up. Paula McLain
past scholar great-future
All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past. Peter Thiel
past history recollection
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. Peter L. Berger
past men race
The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that is has been maintained by mankind up to the present time, notwithstanding all vicissitudes of history. Peter Kropotkin
past college men
The terrorists who have succeeded in carrying out spectacular attacks against Western targets in the past have been college-educated, technically proficient men who are capable of manufacturing and deploying chemical, radiological, and biological weapons. Al Qaeda attracts the kind of highly educated men who one day might be able to pull off such an attack. Peter Bergen
past light giving
Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of coal starts and finishes with its combustion, giving us light and heat. And that to me is Shakespeare. Peter Brook
past player thinking
Ronaldo has come through for the past two or three years and is the best in Europe. I think at the moment no doubt Ronaldo is the best player. Pele
past healthy type
I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel right. Phil Anselmo
past looks situation
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it. Peter Schoomaker
past years effort
When I look at efforts to create change in big companies over the past 10 years, I have to say that there's enough evidence of success to say that change is possible - and enough evidence of failure to say that it isn't likely. Both of those lessons are important. Peter Senge
past talking vision
Vision is the ability to talk about the future with such clarity it is as if we are talking about the past. Simon Sinek
past challenges stories
The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.
past love-is pseudo
Either you are drowned in the past or you are drowned in the future. That's why you are not. That's why you yourself have become a falsehood. You are too concerned with the false, and that concern makes you pseudo. Withdraw yourself from the past and the future. Love is always an emperor. Rajneesh
past meditation mind
Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present.
past eating awareness
Bring awareness to each act. Walking on the road, walk fully alert; eating, eat with awareness. Whatsoever you are doing, don't let the past and the future interfere. Be in the present. That's what awareness is all about.
past desire firsts
Choicelessness is the alchemy of transformation, of inner mutation. A new being is born who has nothing to do with the past, who is absolutely discontinuous with the past. He has no desire. And when there is no desire, for the first time you live
past names two
Past and future are two aspects of the same coin. The name of the coin is mind.
past broken miracle
This mind goes on continuing. This mind will go on continuing, unless you become aware. And this is a miracle: that the moment you become aware the continuity is broken. Now you will be, but not of the past. Now you will be of the moment - fresh, young, new. Now each moment you will die, and you will be reborn.
past self government
The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself. Thomas Jefferson
past comfort monument
I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.
past doubt way
The best way to get past doubt and inexperience is simply action. Robert Herjavec
past government hands
To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands of an unlimited government. We can have a free society or a welfare state. We cannot have both. Robert Higgs
past thinking ideas
What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past. Robert Hass
past suffering desire
Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.
past woe succeed
When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. Robert Herrick
past joy age
Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
past legacy scrapbooking
All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it. Robert Henri
past hands rotting
A surgeon would never hesitate to amputate a rotting hand, no matter how faithfully it had served its owner in the past. Rick Riordan
past life-is
Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up. Tamara Ecclestone
past years innovation
No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world. Sylvia Mathews Burwell
past gold retrospect
Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past? Sylvia Plath