T Quotes
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“The past is what the present is doing now.”
“The past is what we have to learn about how to direct America to the future.”
“The past is what you take with you.”
Source: Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel
“The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.”
Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“The past is where its supposed to be.”
“The past is where we are taught our lessons, we'd be foolish to not listen to them.
Sometimes we misinterpret their teachings.”
Source: Grimm's Puppets
“The past is where you learned the lesson. The future is where you apply the lesson.”
“The past is with me; the present is here. The future is unmapped and changeable. Ours for the imagining: spreading out before us. Sunlight filled, deep blue, and the darkness.”
Source: Words in Deep Blue
“The past is your LESSON. The present is your GIFT. The future is your MOTIVATION.”
“The past is your lessons learned. The present is the gift of life. The future is for your goals!”
“The past is your teacher. The present is your opportunity. The future is your reward.”
“The past isn’t quaint while you’re in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you can see it as décor, not as the shape your life’s been squeezed into.”
Source: Cat’s Eye
“The past isn't fixed and frozen in place. Instead, its meaning changes as life unfolds.”
“The past isn't going to get you to your goal.”
“The past isn't over. It isn't even past.”
“The past isn't real because it's history, and the future isn't because it hasn't happened yet. I like it, it hints at virtual reality, which I think is how we sort of feel about life sometimes.”
“The past isn't useful until its place in the present is found.”
“The past (...) It feels like it exists, but where is it? And if it did exist but doesn't now, then where did it go?”
Source: A Tale for the Time Being
“The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.”
Source: On photography
“The past keeps drawing him back, there is just so much of it. Too much to bear. The past is a weight that pulls him down beneath dark and cloudy waters. An image comes unbidden to his mind. A vision of a wheel, and the wheel no longer turns. It is not that I prefer the company of the dead, he thinks, it is that the dead are the only company I have, the only company I deserve. There is another existence, a wheel that still turns, and I can see it, but I see it as if through a veil.”
Source: Into Dark Water
“The past keeps tomorrow hidden in the future excuses of man.”
“The past lay shattered and bleak, torn by trenches, thick with mines. But the future was rolling hills and untouched forest, an open sea, a fair-weather sky.
Nikolai followed his queen through the mountains and knew hope would lead them home.”
Source: Rule of Wolves
“The past lays the foundation for the present. The present prepares us for the possible future.”
“The past leaders of our movement left us a clear message to keep Eretz Israel from the Sea to the River Jordan for future generations, for the mass aliya, and for the Jewish people, all of whom will be gathered into this country.”
“The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.”
Source: Without a Map: A Memoir
“The past lies like a nightmare upon the present.”
“The past, like the bodies of the dead, hasn't stayed buried.”
Source: Human Acts
“The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children.”
“The past looks lovely and important only when the present, the here and now, is miserable and when the future looks unclear or even dismal.”
Source: Diamonds of the Night
“The past may not hurt you, but it won't challenge you, either.”
“The past may or may not be a foreign country. It may morph or lie still, but its capital is always Regret, and what flushes through it is the grand canal of unfledged desires that feed into an archipelago of tiny might-have-beens that never really happened but aren't unreal for not happening and might still happen though we fear they never will. And I thought of Ole Brit holding back so much, as we all do when we look back to see that the roads we've left behind or not taken have all but vanished. Regret is how we hope to back into our real lives once we find the will, the blind drive and courage, to trade in the life we're given for the life that bears our name and ours only. Regret is how we look forward to things we've long lost yet never really had. Regret is hope without conviction, I said. We're torn between regret, which is the price to pay for things not done, and remorse, which is the cost for having done them. Between one and the other, time plays all its cozy little tricks.”
Source: Enigma Variations
“The past, memories, and outcomes are all very lonely things. They want a companion.”
Source: Durarara!!, Vol. 3
“The past might hurt but don't run from it, repeat it, or punish others for it. Learn from it and be glad that you survived it.”
“The past mistakes hold no grip unless you hand them one.”
“The past moves me and with me, although I remove myself from it. Its light often shines on this night traveler: and when it does, I scribble it down. Whatever pleasure is in it I need pass on. That's happiness. That is who I am.”
“The past must not dictate the future; prior experiences serve as a guiding wind that ushers us in a given direction.”
“The past must not hold us from fulfilling God’s purpose for our lives”
“The past never changes—and from what I can see, neither does the future.”
Source: Scythe
“The past never really returns… it just finds a way to sit across from you.”
Source: Harland’s Plan: Obsessive ambition: Where genius meets madness: Psychological Thriller
“The past never went away and it was not designed to do so.
It would always be there, and it should be acknowledged.”
Source: The Problem with Forever
“The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.”
“The past no longer limits me. / I drift on wind and live as free / above the houses, mountains, clouds, / the cities gripped by anxious crowds, / alighting where I will by day / whenever I decide to stay.
(from Now I've Become a Butterfly)”
Source: The Humbling and Other Poems
“The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.”
Source: In Search of Lost Time: Or
“The past of childhood abuse is not possible to forget; however, it is achievable to thrive”
Source: When Roses are Crushed
“The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.”
“The past only dies so the future can live.”
“the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.”
“The past only rules over the present when you crown it.”
“The past only rules over the present when you give it a crown.”
“The past, present, and future are all contained in the life force.”