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We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.
Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating.
The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.
We should probably all pause to confront our past from time to time, because it changes its meaning as our circumstances alter.
The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.
Everybody needs a place they can go to rest, sheltered from the past and the future. A place you can live one moment at a time.
I want to play the regular guy who's had a bit of a jaded past or a bit of a tortured soul because I think they're interesting.
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
My world got very big, very fast, and based on a lot of sad examples from the past, a lot of people expect me to get lost in it
The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.
Ive worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. Im past the point where I worry about people liking me.
We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no more.
I don't care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it.
If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.
I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.
All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories.
"Lights," I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.
it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.
I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can affect us. We live in the relative world of time and space.
Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.
Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.
Our yesterdays Are like a lonely and a ruined land Wherein a breeze of recollection sighs-- A fading land to which is no return.
But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.
Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Identify your personal limits and then push past them. Then set new barriers, and repeat the process, again and again and again.
Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
It's a great humanitarian injustice. Their families are here and they've been here. It's long past time for them to be reunited.
I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'
I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.
I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
Openness has been vital to Asia's fast growth in the past and it will continue to be crucial for the area's further development.
A lot of my shows in the past have been more theatrical than others, but you really get the bug for it when you direct on stage.
Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.
A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in the future.
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.
While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
The past seems to infuse into the present, and in the brown, wringled faces of the old people one sees the presence of the past.
We're our own worst enemy. You doubt yourself more than anybody else ever will. If you can get past that, you can be successful.
I've done collaborations with Scott [Morgan, aka Loscil] in the past, but it is something that kind of appeals to me these days.
First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.
I am happy to debate the past with the Prime Minister... I have a big dossier on his past, and I did not even have to sex it up.
The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.
Even if you are loaded down with guilt about everything you did in the past, you still are experiencing the guilt in the moment.
You may have noticed over the years that the UN became a bit more media-friendly, a bit more open to the media than in the past.
Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.