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“To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.”

Art Past Artist Century Painting Masters Yesterday Historian Giotto

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past.”

Past Yesterday Bored Cynical Continuous Learning

Author:Walt Disney

“With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still, from the hurrying train of Life, fly backward far and fast The milestones of the fathers, the landmarks of the past. But human hearts remain unchanged: the sorrow and the sin, The loves and hopes and fears of old, are to our own akin; And if, in tales our fathers told, the songs our mothers sung, Tradition wears a snowy beard, Romance is always young.”

Source: Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete Volume I., the Works of Whittier

“For years I kept a sign on my desk that helped me maintain the right perspective concerning yesterday. It simply said, 'yesterday ended last night.' It reminded me that no matter how badly I might have failed in the past, it's done, and today is a new day.”

Years Said Matter Done Might Motivational Today Lasts Past Night Perspective Yesterday Desks Last Night New Day Today Is A New Day Simply Said

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Three days: Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday, I know, Yet if the past were cancelled within the here and now, And then the future hidden, I could regain that Day, Which I, before I was, had lived in God's own way.”

Ifs Knows Way Today Past Three Tomorrow Yesterday Now And Then Here And Now

Author:Angelus Silesius

“Yesterday people were going past my window in t shirts and dresses. But that's the men at the BBC for you.”

People Men Past He Man Window Dresses Yesterday Shirts T Shirt

Author:Eddie Mair

“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”

Past Faces Walks Steps Journey Walking Yesterday Shoulders Wander Gray Hiking Peers Trekking Strolling Sauntering Walk With Me

Author:William Golding

“What change has made the pastures sweet And reached the daisies at my feet, And cloud that wears a golden hem? This lovely world, the hills, the sward-- They all look fresh, as if our Lord But yesterday had finished them.”

Ifs World Looks Made Past Lord Feet Sweet Spring Clouds Finished Yesterday Lovely Golden Hills Our Lord Daisies Pastures Hem

Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

“the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.”

Today Past Yesterday Reach Out Octopus Tentacles

Author:Gladys Taber

“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.”

“... it isn't in my nature to cry for very long. It is one of the blessings of my life that things that are past -- are past. Yesterday's calamities are merely today's challenge. I can get down -- but I can't stay there.”

Long I Can Today Past Challenges Cry Blessing Yesterday Calamity

Book:The Gay Illiterate

Source: The Gay Illiterate

“Yesterday is past. Tomorrow is only a promise. Only today is legal tender.”

Moments Today Past Tomorrow Promise Yesterday Live In The Moment

Book:Money Dynamics for the 1990s

Source: Money Dynamics for the 1990s

“Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart. The present is burdened too much with the past.”

Heart Persons Past Too Much Affair Heavy British Yesterday Crush Halls Museums Weary Tiresome British Museum Heavy Heart

Book:Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of