past quotes

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

— Frank Herbert

“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”

— Ray Bradbury

“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.”

— Jane Austen

“Study the past, if you would divine the future.”

“For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. ”

— Winston Churchill

“Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.”

“To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.”

“If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.”

— Dean Acheson

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

“When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.”

— Bernard Meltzer

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. ”

“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”

— Honore de Balzac

“Sweet is the memory of past troubles.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.”

“Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.”

“Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.”

“What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.”

— Victor Hugo

“We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.”

— Victor Hugo

“What is past is prologue. ”

— William Shakespeare

“They say miracles are past.”

— William Shakespeare

“Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on. ”

— Robert Redford

“Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.”

“ What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past. ”

“Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions. ”

“I really feel free and not as serious as I have been in the past. ”

— Christina Aguilera

“I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt. ”

— Christina Aguilera

“It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change. ”

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