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At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.
It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more.
The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them.
Do I need to ease up on the psychedelics, or did LP just recall one of her past lives unprompted at the most crucial juncture ever?
Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves that allows us to get on with our lives instead of being trapped in the past by resentment.
the present is the merest flicker between the long long time past and the things that haven't yet happened but most assuredly will.
If your doctor has warned you to avoid excitement, do not turn to exploring your past lives as a soothing and sedentary occupation.
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management theories.
I'm not trying to recapture anything. It's really about moving forward. I don't have much reverence for what I've done in the past.
Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy.
God is able to take the mess of our past and turn it into a message. He takes the trials and tests and turns them into a testimony.
The greatest victory anyone can taste is the daily challenge to outrun those fears that you vanquished... days, weeks, months past.
You take something from your past that you're somewhat ashamed about and you write about it from another character's point of view.
I think I spent all my life in gymnastics. And if you will ask me I want to change something in your past life, no. I will go same.
Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide.
The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.
Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we spoon to our babies.
It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all artifice.
When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows.
The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.
After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.
I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.
Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.
Favorite People, Favorite Places, Favorite Memories of the past ... These are the joys of a lifetime Those are the things that last
What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.
Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.
Fear is the anticipation of the pain in the future. Anger is the remembrance of pain in the past. Hostility is wanting to get even.
Something to remember on your birthday..Forget the past, it can't be changed..And, forget the present because I didn't get you one.
If you wonder what you were doing in the past, look at your body; to know what will happen to you in the future, look at your mind.
There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life.
Karma means your have to live with the consequences of the actions you have taken in the past. Whatever you put out is coming back.
Do not follow after the past; do not go forward to meet the future. Instead, just rest the mind naturally in the present awareness.
Postulate 1. All chance systems of causes are not alike in the sense that they enable us to predict the future in terms of the past.
All beings are not only the parents in the past. They will become the Buddha in the future. If you free their lives, you are Buddha.
Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
The past can be a rudder that guides you or an anchor tha hinders you. Leave your mistakes with God and look to the future by faith.
An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.
Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?
To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic.
What I've learned in the past 12 years of recording (I made my first CD at 12) is how important it is to find one's authentic voice.
The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.
When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language
I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
The wilderness that has come to us out of the eternity of the past, we have the boldness to project into the eternity of the future.
Becoming less focused on the past and future and not resisting the moment is how to overcome fear, physical pain, and all suffering.