T Quotes
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“The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.”
“The past is no more and the future is not yet. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment, whose arrow is directed to the moment, who is always here and now; wherever he is, his whole consciousness, his whole being, is involved in the reality of here and in the reality of now.”
“The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.”
“The past is no prison; it cannot bind who you are today. Hold the wisdom, release the rest, and keep walking.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“The past is not a finished, done, and closed chapter of our existence; it is very much alive and active. We live it in every moment. We create it in our present.”
Source: Wor(l)ds from Nothingness
“The past is not a package one can lay away.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I please, and will gradually show me all its secret hills and dales. As I was moving forward, so it was crumbling. Most of the wreckage that can be seen is colourless, distorted, frozen: its meaning escapes me... all that's left is a skeleton. I shall never find my plans again, my hopes and fears - I shall not find myself.”
“The past is not clinging to you; YOU are clinging to the past. Once you are not clinging, the past simply EVAPORATES!”
“The past is not dead - it isn't even past”
“The past is not dead. It just lived with us for some time. It will show up in the future to give you a reward.”
“The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)
“The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.”
“The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.”
“the past is not only that which happened but also that which could have happened but did not.”
Source: A concert of tenses: essays on poetry
“The past is not ours to own. We think, because we can remember it, that it belongs to us, that we can go back to it, that we are the same person who lived those moments, breathed that air, and made those choices.
We are not the same.
We are a stranger living with memories that belong to someone else.
And the past belongs to itself.’
– Kallista Eris, from manuscript notes on the development of history, suppressed”
Source: Ahriman: Unchanged
“The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.”
“The past is not something fixed and unalterable. Its facts are re-discoverable by every succeeding generation, its values re-assessed, its meaning re-defined in the context of present tastes and preoccupations. Out of the same documents and monuments and works of art, every epoch invents its own Middle Ages, its private China, its patented and copyrighted Hellas.”
Source: The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
“The past is not the present, so let your future live”
Source: Your Pocket Coach - 25 Powerful Reminders
“The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.”
Source: The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations
“The past is not what it was.”
“The past is nothing but a shackle we need to get rid of. Such an excruciating burden. If only I could have no past - you know, if only I could be a nobody, start from point zero and just remain there forever. As light as a feather...”
Source: The Bastard of Istanbul
“The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.”
Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem
“The past is nothing to [the young], not even another country as it is to the old, or even a nightmare as it is to the guilty.”
“The past is obdurate.”
Source: 11/22/63: A Novel
“The past is obdurate. It doesn't want to change.”
Source: 11/22/63: A Novel
“The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.”
“The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.”
Source: Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations
“The past is of value only as it aids in understanding the present; and an understanding of the facts of the problem -- a magnanimous understanding by both races -- is the first step toward its solution.”
Source: The Negro in Chicago A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot
“The past is one evil less and one memory more.”
“The past is one part of the movie, and the future reveals how the film will continue... You can't change fate. Life and surroundings you can't change. You just have the impression that you can do something about it.”
Source: Just Love Her
“The past is only a guidepost... not a hitching post.”
“The past is only a memory, and the future is yet to be, but I feel strongly that learning from the past will help me face whatever the future brings.”
Source: The Ascension of Mary
“The past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of our present conceptions. The present itself vanishes as soon as we try to grasp it. So why bother with attempting to establish an illusion of solid ground?”
“The past is only the future with the lights on”
“The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.”
“The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.”
Source: Standing by Words
“The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us; it is our own in a way that nothing else in life is. In a word, we are our past; we do not cling to it, it clings to us.”
Source: Grace King of New Orleans: A Selection of Her Writings
“The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it we draw provision for our journey, the collected wisdom whose harvests are all ours to reap and carry with us, though we may never live again in the fields that grew them.”
Source: The Lycian Shore
“The past is our very being.”
“The past is over and done and cannot be changed. This is the only moment we can experience.”
“The past is over, gone. What is to come doesn't exist yet. That's tomorrow! It's only now that can ever be, at any moment. And at this moment, now, we are alive--and together. We can't ask more. There isn't any more to ask.”
Source: The Angry Tide
“The past is over, so it has no power now. The thoughts of this moment create my future.”
“The past is over... forget it. The future holds hope... reach for it.”
“The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.”
“The past is part of the present, is part of the future, it's all part of being an artist. You cannot be something that you're not when you're not that thing anymore, and if you do that then you're a liar.”
“The past is past and I guess if you live in the past, you cease to live.”
“The past is past. You tried to kill yourself. So what? I humped a couch in season twelve. We all have our skeletons.”
Source: Something Real
“The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.”
“The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.”
Source: All Tomorrow's Parties
“The past is perpetual youth to the heart.”
Source: The Complete Works of L.E. Landon