Best past & lost Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.”

Trying Past Remember Lost Ideals Stopping Refrain

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“This is a jury of your peers. They watch the same TV movies. They belong to Oprah’s Book Club. You can take any monster, slap a bad dad into his past, and all of a sudden he’s just another lost soul, lashing out. And you were the poor lady that got in the way. They’ll argue you lacked compassion. You were the one who took things too far.”

Way Book Soul Past Lost Poor Compassion Watches Tvs Dad Clubs Arguing Monsters Peers Jury Slap Lost Souls Book Club Lashing Out

Author:Jeremy Robert Johnson

“The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.”

Ifs Hands Past Fighting Lost Opinion Struggle Overcoming Swallowing

Book:the Revolt of the Masses

Source: the Revolt of the Masses

“There are going to be tears in Heaven, because God is going to have to wipe them away. No doubt many of us will cry when we first arrive there and realize just how much our many mistakes have cost and lost. But God will wipe away all these tears, and comfort and encourage us and inspire us for the future, so we can forget the past. There will be tears, but thank God He will wipe them away with His joy. Then there will be no more tears and no more years, only a happy eternity!”

Years Firsts Past Joy Lost Heaven Realizing Forget Mistake Doubt Cry Tears Inspire Comfort Cost Eternity Gods Will No Doubt Heavenly Thank God Wipe Forget The Past

Author:David Berg

“You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost”

Doe Past Young Lost Secret Generations Creation Hungry Ruins Mock

Book:Epigrams and Aphorisms

Source: Epigrams and Aphorisms

“Forgiveness sees wisely. It willingly acknowledges what is unjust, harmful, and wrong. It bravely recognizes sufferings of the past, and understands the conditions that brought them about.Forgiveness honors the heart's greatest dignity. Whenever we are lost, it brings us back to the ground of love.Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the sufferings of the past and repeat them with no release.”

Heart Past Suffering Lost Our Lives Conditions Honor Dignity Release Acknowledge Repeats Unjust Chained

Author:Jack Kornfield

“With us the inner nature accords with the outer expectation. The body follows the mind, and the mind seeks the soul, which it strives toward but has not yet won. With you it is otherwise. The mind follows the body in pursuit of the soul you have been told you already have. Because you cannot find it, you assume you have lost it somewhere in your past, and this keeps you from achieving it in your future.”

Mind Has Beens Soul Body Past Lost Achieve Expectations Assuming Strive Pursuit Our Future Our Past Strife Your Future Your Past Accord

Author:Sheri S. Tepper

“There is, however, no advantage in reflections on the past further than may be of service to the present. For the future we must provide by maintaining what the present gives us and redoubling our efforts; it is hereditary to us to win virtue as the fruit of labour, and you must not change the habit, even though you should have a slight advantage in wealth and resources; for it is not right that what was won in want should be lost in plenty.”

Want Giving Should May Past Winning Lost Wealth Effort Virtue Habit Reflection Resources Advantage Should Have Fruit Plenty Labour Maintaining Hereditary

Book:The Peloponnesian War

Source: The Peloponnesian War

“The bodybuilding world has lost one of its greatest legends. I had a chance to speak with Steve Michalik a year ago at The Upper State Bodybuilding competition. We laughed and shared our personal opinions about bodybuilding [today's scene and how it was in the past]. Steve, we'll miss you. R.I.P.”

World Years States Today Past Lost Speak Chance Opinion Missing Scene Years Ago Competition Laughed Legends Bodybuilding Lost Ones Personal Opinions We'll Miss You

Author:Lee Haney

“Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!”

Past Lying Lost Prayer Youth Saint Patron

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a person deprived of memory becomes disorientated and lost, not knowing where they have been or where they are going , so a nation denied a conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future.”

Persons Has Beens Past Remember Individual Lost Nations Memories Knowing Conception Denied Not Knowing Deprived Disabled Dealing With It

Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

“Most power is lost in one's own mind by thinking negative thoughts, by worrying about the future, by focusing on the past, as opposed to thinking positive, strong, and happy thoughts.”

Thinking Mind Past Lost Strong Worry Losing Negative Mysticism Negative Thoughts Think Positive Losing Power Happy Thoughts Thinking Negative

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Revolutionary's Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modeled on some image of the Lost Paradise, of a legendary Golden Age... All utopias are fed from the source of mythology; the social engineers' blueprints are merely revised editions of the ancient text.”

Age Past Lost Social Break Atheism Source Ancient Appearance Positive Atheism Mythology Golden Revolutionary Paradise Feds Engineers Utopia Legendary Blueprints Golden Age

Book:the god that failed

Source: the god that failed

“Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable.”

“When something like this happens, you suddenly have no sense of reality at all. You have lost a piece of your past. The infidelity itself is small potatoes compared to the low-level brain damage that results when a whole chunk of your life turns out to have been completely different from what you thought it was. It becomes impossible to look back at anything that's happened ... without wondering what was really going on.”

Looks Has Beens Different Whole Reality Happens Past Turns Lost Levels Results Brain Wonder Pieces Impossible Happened Lows Damage Infidelity Our Past Potatoes Your Past Chunks Low Level

Book:Heartburn

Source: Heartburn

“I endeavor to drink deep of philosophy, and to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient where there is no redress. The mighty can do no more, and the wise seldom do as much. ... I am resolved to make the best of all circumstances around me, that this short life may not be half lost in pains ... Between the periods of birth and burial, I would fain insert a little happiness, a little pleasure, a little peace: to-day is ours, yesterday is past, and to-morrow may never come.”

“What was lost in the European cataclysm was not only the Jewish past--the whole life of a civilization--but also a major share ofthe Jewish future.... [ellipsis in source] It was not only the intellect of a people in its prime that was excised, but the treasure of a people in its potential.”

People Whole Past Lost Share Source Civilization Majors Intellect Whole Life Treasure Prime Holocaust

Author:Cynthia Ozick

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