Past Quotes
Past Quote of the day
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
I am not where I need to be, but, thank God, I am not where I used to be.
The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.
In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.
I think houses live their own lives along a time-stream that's different from the ones upon which their owners float, one that's slower. In a house, especially an old one, the past is closer.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
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.
...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.
Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past.
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose all their true value.
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.
