All Quotes By Tag: Past
“Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.”
“I just don’t see why the past has to matter.”
“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”
“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”
“We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.”
“I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can’t believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can’t imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven’t been.”
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
“I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.”
“Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?”
“Whoever said that the past isn’t dead had it backward. It’s the future that’s already dead, already played out.”
“In magic – and in life – there is only the present moment, the now. You can’t measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. ‘Time’ doesn’t pass. We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we’re always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better, about the consequences of our actions, and about why we didn’t act as we should have. Or else we think about the future, about what we’re going to do tomorrow, what precautions we should take, what dangers await us around the next corner, how to avoid what we don’t want and how to get what we have always dreamed of.”
“People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.”
“The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.”
“It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.”
“I can’t. You can’t rewrite the past.”
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