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People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
I thought ‘I wonder what will happen if I try and root myself somewhere?‘ Look back over the past eight years.
The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.
My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.
Thank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years.
Huizi would say, never look back to the past. Never regret. Even if there is emptiness ahead, never look back.
The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.
. . . hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past.
With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present.
In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.
Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.
Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.
Sustainable growth is characterized by one simple rule: New customers come from the actions of past customers.
Worry is a waste of energy. It cant change the past. It cant control the future. It only makes today miserable
I'm afraid that the gift of visiting the past is all that we have. We can revisit it, but only as it happened.
The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.
You've got to use it, the pain. Use it as fuel to move past the torment, to the light at the end of the tunnel
Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.
Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.
And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.
Worry is the product of a future that we cannot guarantee and guilt is the product of a past we cannot change.
Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war?
As soon as an actress is past 40, they call her a grande dame. As long as I'm here in good health, I'm stable.
I don't think about the past, I only think about the present because what I do today sets me up for the future.
To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
I was a history major in school. I review the past a lot and think about music history and how culture unfolds.
I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
While no one can change events that occurred in the past, everyone can change attitudes and beliefs about them.
The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.
In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.
It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.
The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.
Even though it's hard to believe, but people who know me really well know I'm shy. I have to go past that fear.
For the past century or so that's [ Monroe Doctrine] actually been true, but it's declining very significantly.
It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.
The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.
My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
Medicinal discovery, It moves in mighty leaps, It leapt straight past the common cold And gave it us for keeps.
The best armor against slander is having an honorable past. A good name is always made of smear-proof material.
Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.
A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.