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Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view.
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.
Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.
In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!
We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.
Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.
Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive.
There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .
All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.
You can get over a broken past if you decide to believe that there's nothing in your past that can keep you from having a great future.
I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.
When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids.
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
But... what about us? What about the past?" she asks blankly. "The past isn't real. it's just a dream," I say. "Don't mention the past.
Every author has the whole past to contend with; all the centuries are upon him. He is compared with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton.
I have said this many times in the past and will say it many times in the future I am sure: some people need to find a different hobby.
I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.
In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.
It is possible to reclaim your future, to build a happy life despite an imperfect past. We can order the universe to our will and mind.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher.
We can see how the role of mobile has changed in past 20 years. It is a perfect example of how one innovation can change an entire era.
Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.
I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
The future of food security will depend on a combination of the ecological prudence of the past and the technological advances of today.
Fighting the wounds of the past will only deepen those wounds. Relaxation is the method that heals the wounds of the mind, not reaction.
The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.
You see, I have no real complaints of how you've left your past behind I guess what gets me worried is you've erased him from your mind.
Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers; they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past.
The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.
There have been ups and downs over the years, but that's in the past, and now I'm just looking forward and focussed on the future ahead.
At twenty your choices are almost unlimited. At fifty you're a prisoner of past decisions. At seventy you have no free will left at all.
Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.
What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary defeat.
It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.
The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.
South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting.
The longest journeyIs the journey inwards.Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest For the source of his being.
But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.
What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it".
Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory.
To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
Turquoise, yellow, pink, a lot of the pastel colors are some of the more popular suit colors this year. But it varies from old to young.
If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.