“You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.” LooksProblemPastDesireChurchMemoriesBuildingGoes OnWeightUrgentCrushedPast MemoriesBuilding Something Author:Pope Francis
“Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.” MenLittlesPastLaborWeightBurdenAccomplishedTiedShiftingPsychoanalysisTherapeutic Book:Freud: The Mind of the Moralist Source: Freud: The Mind of the Moralist
“I used to be really cute. I could send you earlier photos where I'm stunning. But I've gained about twenty pounds over the past two years, and the more weight I've put on, the more success I've had. If you drew a diagram of weight gain and me getting more work, a mathematician would draw some conclusions from that.” IfsYearsTwoPastUsedDrawsGainsWeightTwentiesConclusionUsed To BeCutePoundsTwo YearsMathematicianOver The PastStunningDiagramsReally Cute Author:Zach Galifianakis
“The world in the past has been ruled by force, and man has dominated over woman by reason of his more forceful and aggressive qualities both of body and mind. But the balance is already shifting—force is losing its weight and mental alertness, intuition, and the spiritual qualities of love and service, in which woman is strong, are gaining ascendancy. Hence the new age will be an age less masculine, and more permeated with the feminine ideals—or, to speak more exactly, will be an age in which the masculine and feminine elements of civilization will be more evenly balanced.” MenWorldMindHas BeensReasonBodyAgePastSpiritualSpeakStrongForceQualityBalanceCivilizationElementsLosingIdealsWeightIntuitionFeminineAggressiveBalancedNew AgeMasculineShiftingMind And BodyAlertnessMasculine And FeminineAscendancy Author:Abdu'l-Bahá
“Ours is a golden age of minorities. At no time in the past have dissident minorities felt so much at home and had so much room to throw their weight around. They speak and act as if they were "the people," and what they abominate most is the dissent of the majority.” PeopleIfsHomeAgePastSpeakFeltRoomsWeightMajorityGoldenMinoritiesDissentGolden AgeDissidents Book:In our time Source: In our time
“At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.” MenPastSpiritCan DoPathThousandFairsWeightAddFormerPersistenceProgressiveDragImmenseTowersNo FearHave No Fear Author:Maurice Maeterlinck
“The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr. McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon--Gordon Comstock, last member of the Comstock family, aged twenty-nine and rather moth-eaten already--lounged across the table, pushing a fourpenny packet of Player's Weights open and shut with his thumb.” LittlesTwoBookLastsPastHalfPlayerMembersOfficeWeightTwentiesTablesNineClockPushingThumbsMothsBookshops Book:The complete works of George Orwell Source: The complete works of George Orwell
“Writing of history is our only heuristic principle. The Germans have a word for it, einfühlen. It is the ability to experience the past in the present and to recreate it. In my books, I have tried to recreate it in the most natural way possible: History must be integrated into the story without the weight of premonition.” WayWritingBookStoriesPastNaturalAbilityPrinciplesWeightIntegratedPremonitionHeuristics Author:Gore Vidal
“Old customs are easy to forget with the flashing of events in our lives. Easy to forget, like the heavy clothing we once wore to survive the winters. It is an old custom, the handing down of things. A good knife, a well-made pipe, a heavy robe. Tradition falls prey to constant change, and creativity becomes so revered that the past is a relic, only to be admired. But in this coat, I was held to the earth, pulled to the past by its weight.” WellsMadeEarthPastFallEasyForgetCreativityOur LivesEventsTraditionWeightConstantWinterHeavyCustomsKnivesClothingsCoatsPreyPipeRobesRelics Author:Craig Childs
“the arts of Mexico are heavy with the weight of the past, of gods that demanded the sacrifice of a thousand beating hearts in a day, of a world that ended every fifty-two years, of warriors who rushed into battle wearing the heads of jaguars or clothed in the flayed skins of their human victims.” WorldYearsHumansHeartArtTwoPastSacrificeBattleThousandSkinsWeightVictimHeavyWarriorFiftyTwo YearsMexicoJaguars Author:Biloine W. Young
“One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good.” WayPastMemoriesWeightBest WayOccasionsRecallsOur MemoriesPromptsHappy TimesGreat MemoriesMake Yourself Happy Author:Gretchen Rubin