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But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this moment is called the present; Enjoy it.
The whole past and the whole world are alive in my heart, and I shall do my part to communicate their presence to my readers.
If life were a movie, physical reality would be the entire DVD: Future and past frames exist just as much as the present one.
The next thing you think, the next action you take, will either create a new possibility for you, or it will repeat the past.
There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.
Meditation will bring back the powers and awareness from the past; more importantly, it will expand your consciousness today.
There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past.
If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory." Translation by David Downie
If we believe terrorists are past redemption, we should just rip up like 1/2 the New Testament because it was written by one.
I have said a lot in the past and now I think it is best that I do not comment on what I think when I look at President Bush!
Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.
The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Sometimes God redeems your story by surrounding you with people who need to hear your past so it doesn't become their future.
They indeed are fools who are satisfied with the fruits of their past effort and do not engage themselves in self-effort now.
A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.
The degree to which fear now becomes an organizing principle of society is enormous compared to what it was like in the past.
Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.
That girl--all of them--hated Eleanor before they'd even laid eyes on her. Like they'd been hired to kill her in a past life.
We spend too much time talking about each other, at each other, past each other, and not enough time talking with each other.
The past is nothing to [the young], not even another country as it is to the old, or even a nightmare as it is to the guilty.
We are often wrong about the past, but at least with the past you can change your thinking. We can't do that with the future.
The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment
I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.
When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.
Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.
Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.
Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.
Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.
I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories
I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past. In silence you can’t hide anything … as you can in words.
Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.
Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?
he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America
Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.
In every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along
Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.
You don't want to live in the past. Everything in life is in the future. You don't want to continue to be buried in the past.
I don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.
Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?
We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.
I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.
For progressive people the present is the beginning of the future. For conservative people the present is the end of the past.
I sometimes use music as way of getting back to a certain time, dredging up stuff from the past and putting it down on canvas.
It's satisfying to put out new music. And I think that's the context in which I'm comfortable revisiting things from the past.
There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.
There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.
All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.