Quotes
Quotes about Past
No use thinking of the past for its gone, don't think of the future because it has to come, think of the present because thats where you are and thats the place from where you can control the past and the future.
Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense.
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. -Jim Bishop.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.
You to the left and I to the right, For the ways of men must sever-- And it may be for a day and a night, And it well may be forever. But whether we meet or whether we part, (For our ways are past our knowing) A pledge from the heart to its fellow heart, On the ways we all are going! Here's luck! For we know not where we are going.
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. -Boris Pasternak.
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-bought experience.
The violets were past their prime, Yet their departing breath Was sweeter, in the blast of death, Than all the lavish fragrance of the time.
My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.
And to hie him home, at evening's close, To sweet repast, and calm repose. . . . . From toil we wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful night; Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven's best treasures, peace and health.
When now, unsparing as the scourge of war, Blasts follow blasts and groves dismantled roar; Around their home the storm-pinched cattle lows, No nourishment in frozen pasture grows; Yet frozen pastures every morn resound With fair abundance thund'ring to the ground.
In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past, That I may give for every day Some good account at last. - Isaac Watts,
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.
The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
