All Quotes By Tag: Past

“Time is not a single train, moving in one direction at a constant speed. Every so often it meets another train coming in the opposite direction, from the past, and for a short while that past is with us, by our side, in our present.”

“Dear soul,am I only because I have been?”

“Every step we take toward the top is possible because of all the little steps we took in the past.”

“The concept of time can be viewed as a continuum extending from the past to the present and to the future in which events happen in an irreversible progression”

“Do not beat yourself up for what you did or did not do. That will only bruise you and break you and make you less able to live the life you want. You can’t change the past, and you can’t control the future, but you can sure as hell contribute to the quality of your today.”

“A friend once taught me that we’d all live differently if we could live our lives over, but all we can actually do is try to make amends in the future for the past. That means live the best we can right here, right now.”

“You alone can create the change you seel. But how? By accepting things as they are, you allow yourself to make apt choices.”

“I take care of the future by controlling the past.”

“I remember when you’ll be a month old, and I’ll stumble out of bed to give you your 2:00 a.m. feeding.”

“It’s easy to write history. All the eyewitnesses are dead.”

“All events and people you have cherished in the past, and all events and people that are yet to happen to you, exist at all times. This for sure beats the traditional concept of heaven!”

“In English, consciousness and unconsciousness are part of a vertical plane, so that we wake up ↑ and we fall ↓ asleep and we sink ↓ into a coma. Chinese uses the horizontal line, so that to wake is to cross a border towards consciousness → and to faint is to go back ← . Meanwhile, time itself is vertical so that last year is “the year above” ↑ and next year is “the year below” ↓. The day before yesterday is the day “in front” ↑ and the day after tomorrow is the day “behind” ↓. This means that future generations are not the generations ahead, but the ones behind. Therefore, to look into the future one must turn around…”

“I told you I loved you, but I said it a little too late. You move in time and sometimes our timing is against one another.”

“We are the ghost of the choices we didn’t make and shredded skin of the ones we did!”

“Memories are aches; they are the laughterSmiles of time flee to seize the hereafter”