T Quotes
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“The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of the instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.”
“The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now.”
Source: Orbital
“The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.”
“The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.”
“The past decade seems like a foggy blur, like we took a long road trip from one point of the earth and back again, traveling in a wide circle, destined to end up here.”
Source: Love and Other Words
“The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.”
Source: Just Listen
“The past does not define me, it ignites me. The past is not a piece of me, it has placed me”
“The past does not define you. There will be people who once knew you intimately, but they don’t know you now. They may remember a chapter that once spoke to them, but they don’t get to know the chapters that are coming. You get to write those.”
Source: Mending the Mind
“The past does not define, you the present does.”
“The past does not dictate the future...but it can draw a very detailed sketch.”
Source: Sophizo
“The past does not equal the future.”
“The past does not go away because we refuse to look at it.”
Source: Running Backward
“The past does not haunt us. We haunt the past. We allow our minds to focus in that direction. We open memories and examine them. We reexperience emotions we felt during the painful events we experienced because we are recalling them in as much detail as we can.”
Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
“The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.”
Source: The Glory of Christmas: Collector's Edition
“The past does not influence me; I influence it.”
“The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and, when we who live in the present touch them, they are suddenly stretched taut and then they propel us into the future.”
Source: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
“The past does not really exist -- except in the brain.”
Source: Everyday Trauma: Remapping the Brain's Response to Stress, Anxiety, and Painful Memories for a Better Life
“The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”
“the past doesn't define me
I define myself through my present self”
Source: Within the event horizon: poetry & prose
“The past doesn’t die; it lingers in the shadows, waiting for the right moment to pull you back in.”
Source: Thread of the Forgotten Soul
“The past doesn't exist. There is nothing to be sorry for. Today is when we start to live. Look... look at the sea. The sea has no past. It is just there. It will never ask us to explain. The stars, the moon are there to light our way, to shine for us. What do they care what might have happened in the past? They are accompanying us, and are happy with that; can you see them shine? The stars are twinkling in the sky; would they do that if the past mattered? Wouldn't there be a huge storm if God wanted to punish us? We are alone, you and I, with no past, no memories, no guilt, nothing that can stand in the way of... our love.”
Source: La catedral del mar
“The past doesn’t need to be remembered—it is healed in the present.”
Source: The Unified Point of Time: Remember Who You Are
“The past doesn't buy you much.”
“The past doesn't change no matter how much time you spend thinking about it. Good and bad all add up to the whole. Take away one piece, no matter how small, and the whole changes. Whether it's optimism, pessimism or fatalism, I don't spend my time wishing for the past to be different so present would be different, too. I control my future with what I choose now.”
“The past doesn't define you, your present does. It's okay to create a vision of the future because it affects your behavior in the "now," but don't dwell on past mistakes. Learn from them and focus those lessons in the moment. That's where change can really happen.”
“The past doesn't determine your future unless you carry it with you into the present. Forgiving yourself and others, you free the universe to begin again at any moment.”
“The past doesn't equal the future.
All great leaders, all people who have achieved in any area of life,
know the power of continuously pursuing their vision,
even if all the details of how to achieve it aren't yet available”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“The past doesn't haunt us, we haunt the past.”
“The past doesn't have anything to do with the future, only if you let it.”
“The past doesn't just disappear after it's happened.”
Source: So Much Closer
“The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.”
“The past doesn’t exist except as a memory, a mental story, and though past events aren’t changeable, your stories about them are. You can act now to transform the way you tell the story of your past, ultimately making it a stalwart protector of your future.”
“The past drawn like a silk sheet over the present.”
Source: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“The past embraces the future
The future embraces the past
They are both intertwined
Linked in all eternity”
Source: The Whisper Of Your Soul
“The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.”
“The past existed in multitudinous ways. You only experienced one probable past. By changing this past in your mind, now, in your present, you can change not only its nature but its effect, and not only upon yourself but upon others.”
“The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!”
“The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.”
“The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. The tree that you are aware of intellectually, because of that small time lag, is always in the past and therefore is always unreal. Any intellectually conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal. Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.”
“The past exists side by side with the present,not behind; what was-is.”
Source: I'll Never Write My Memoirs
“The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me -and I love to live life at full throttle.”
“The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.”
“The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.”
“The past fades into shadow, offering lessons to heed; the future stretches before us, a promise yet to be fulfilled; the present unfolds as a gift, asking only to be embraced.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels assured, even when it isn't.”
“The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very top and stagnant living standards for the majority.”
“The past few months have been the most serene of his adult life. The megalopolis in his mind has quieted to a country road. He does his work, he eats his bread, and he sleeps with the knowledge that today hasn't added to the sum of human misery. For now at least it's peace of a kind he hadn't imagined himself worthy of receiving.”
Source: The Tsar of Love and Techno
“The past few years have been absolutely incredible and I feel so blessed to have the privilege of sharing even more music. 'Beautiful Day,' although a fun song, has a message saying that in spite of what we're going through, every day is a good day and an incredible gift because God made it. In my young life I've learned that every day can begin with worshipping my Creator.”