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“In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in logical sequence, but a life periodically dividing into entirely separate compartments. Change of surroundings, interests, pursuits, has made it seem actually more like different incarnations.”

Years Made Different Seems Past Interest Existence Events Reflection Flow Pursuit Made It Logical Surroundings Sequence Incarnation Retrospect Dividing

Book:The Fabric of Memory

Source: The Fabric of Memory

“Your life is a reflection of your past thoughts. That includes all the great things, and all the things you consider not so great... Think thoughts of abundance and wealth, and do not allow any contradictory thoughts to take root.”

Thinking Past Life Is Wealth Reflection Roots Great Things Abundance Our Past Contradictory Your Past

Author:Rhonda Byrne

“When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul rushes together in the intensity of the one feeling; thought, reflection, conscience, duty, the past, the future, they are names to her light as the breath which speaks them; her soul is full.”

Firsts Heart Soul Feelings Light Together Past Names Speak Duty Reflection Conscience First Time Breaths Passionate Faculty Intensity Passionate Love

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“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

“To the sky, I rise / Spread my wings, and fly / I leave the past behind / And say goodbye to the scared child inside / I sing for freedom, and for love / I look at my reflection / Embrace the woman I've become / The unbreakable lotus in me / I now set free”

Looks Children Past Behinds Sky Reflection Embrace Wings Scared Spread Goodbye Saying Goodbye Lotuses Unbreakable Leaving The Past Leave The Past Behind

Author:Christina Aguilera

“When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I used to lean out over the water and try to look past my own face, past the reflection of the boat, past the sun and darkness, down to where the fish were surely swimming. I made up charm songs and word-hopes to tempt the fish, to cause them to mean biting my hook. I believed they would do it if I asked them well and patiently and with the right hope. I am writing my poems like this. I have used the fabric and the people of my life as the bait.”

“While all the pomp and circumstance of war animated others, it only saddened me; and all of past reflection, all of future dread, made the whole grandeur of the martial scene, and all the delusive seduction of martial music, fill my eyes frequently with tears.”

Made War Whole Eye Past Tears Circumstances Scene Reflection Dread Seduction Animated Grandeur Militarism Saddened

Book:Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)

“As the House is designed to provide a reflection of the mood of the moment, the Senate is meant to reflect the continuity of the past--to preserve the delicate balance of justice between the majority's whims and the minority's rights.”

Moments Government Past House Politics Justice Rights Balance Reflection Majority Equality Mood Preserves Minorities Senate Delicate Continuity Whim

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“The past can't be changed, can it? It can just be forgiven.”

Inspirational Past Changed Reflection Forgiven

Book:Missing Joseph

Source: Missing Joseph

“Dealing with the unknown, the unexpected, is a reflection for me musically of what's happening in the world, because people are learning how to dialog with each other without any past strategy or any kind of formula from the past.”

People World Kind Past Happenings Reflection Strategy Unexpected Formulas

Author:Wayne Shorter

“I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a glass building, but it's in my mind about getting older and finding out what I'm going to look like as it unfolds - or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land.”

Mind Looks Stills Past Land Building Walking Findings Reflection Mark Glasses Scar Shocked Getting Old Getting Older Folds

Author:Dave Matthews

“Each image suggests an inner reality, a kind of scar of the past, a reflection of an act or an event once lived.”

Kind Reality Past Events Reflection Scar

Book:Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

Source: Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

“Portraits I've done in the past I've always thought were a reflection of me.”

Done Past Reflection Portraits

Author:Judy Dater

“There was a criticism that stuck with me a little bit, which is that somebody said that I was jumping on a bandwagon by talking about sexuality. Obviously that's not a massive takedown, but I found that personally quite offensive because it's something that I've been living with and dealing with my whole life, and just because I decided to speak about it now is not me jumping on a bandwagon; it's a reflection of how I feel within this industry and how I've grown in the past five years.”

Past Speak Reflection Criticism Sexuality Whole Life Stuck Offensive

Author:Marika Hackman

“Usually when I sat down to draw a cartoon, it would be more of a reflection of things in my past. Or it could be something I had experienced that morning, or that week, or something I might know that's part of my background.”

Past Morning Week Reflection Sat Cartoon My Past

Author:Gary Larson

“No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet, so deadly sad, that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank, something like then world when the deluge was gone by.”

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Wine talks; ask anyone. The oracle at the street corner; the uninvited guest at the wedding feast; the holy fool. It ventriloquizes. It has a million voices. It unleashes the tongue, teasing out secrets you never meant to tell, secrets you never even knew. It shouts, rants, whispers. It speaks of great plans, tragic loves, and terrible betrayals. It screams with laughter. It chuckles softly to itself. It weeps in front of its own reflection. It revives summers long past and memories best forgotten. Every bottle a whiff of other times, other places, everyone...a humble miracle”

“Your life right now is a reflection of your past thoughts. That includes all the great things, and all the things you consider not so great. Since you attract to you what you think about most, it is easy to see what your dominant thoughts have been on every subject of your life, because that is what you have experienced. Until now!”

Thinking Life Has Beens Past Easy Subjects Right Now Reflection Great Things Dominant Your Past Secret Law Of Attraction

Book:THE MAGIC

Source: THE MAGIC

“He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.”

Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more

“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”

Past Form Reflection Repetition

Book:The Summer Without Men: A Novel

Source: The Summer Without Men: A Novel

“What you think of as they past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember the past, you reactivate a memory trace -- and you do so now. The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind. When the future comes, it comes as the Now. When you think about the future, you do it now. Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present. Their reality is "borrowed" from the Now.”

Thinking Mind Reality Light Past Remember Memories Sun Moon Eternal Reflection Former Pale Projection Borrowed Remembering The Past

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Cold as winter, strong as stone; She faced the darkness all alone. A silver goddess; a reflection. A mirage; a recollection. No return; no turning back. The past is gone, the future, black. Serpents gather in their nest, And she stands above the rest. Shadows hunt; she hunts the shadow. The moon is risen; she stands below. She views her world through the eyes of others. Black and white; there are no colors, As she looks down upon a shattered youth. A shattered mirror shows a shattered truth.”

“We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present”

Has Beens Past Theory Ought Reflection Notion Latter Endeavor Latter Days

Author:Russell Kirk

“To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that it defines your capacity for future experience. As a social scientist, you have to control this rather elaborate interplay, to capture what you experience and sort it out; only in this way can you hope to use it to guide and test your reflection, and in the process shape yourself as an intellectual craftsman”

Way Mean Play Use Past Social Process One Thing Shapes Intellectual Reflection Capacity Tests Scientist Guides Capture Our Past Your Past Craftsman

Book:The Sociological Imagination

Source: The Sociological Imagination

“Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.”

Life Feels Eye Past Spirit Society Building Reflection Mirrors Casts Architecture

Author:I. M. Pei

“Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”

Men Inspirational Past Happiness Attitude Gratitude Blessing Reflection Yoga Optimism Grateful Every Man Moving Forward Misfortunes Thanksgiving Thank You Thankfulness Thankful Being Thankful Your Past Reflecting Gratefulness Thankful Gratitude Gratitude And Appreciation Thanksgiving Day Being Blessed Expressing Gratitude Thanksgiving And Gratitude Thanksgiving Thanks Thanksgiving Gratitude Gratitude And Thanks Thankfulness And Gratitude Great Gratitude Love And Gratitude Count Your Blessings Inspirational Gratitude Thankful For You Thanksgiving Holiday Express Appreciation Inspirational Thanksgiving Thankful Thanksgiving Gratitude For Help My Blessing Love Gratitude Thanksgiving Inspirational Grateful For You Thanksgiving Thank You Love Thanksgiving Grateful Thankful Family Thanksgiving Grateful Inspirational Gratitude For Work Thanksgiving And Family Thankfulness For Love Thanksgiving Family Grateful Thanks Friends Thanksgiving Things To Be Thankful Feeling Grateful Blessed And Thankful Things To Be Grateful Thankful For Blessings

Book:Sketches by Boz

Source: Sketches by Boz

“It is by thoughtful reflection that the elusive moments of the past draw near to us in present reality and gain a measure of permanence.”

Moments Reality Past Draws Reflection Gains Thoughtful Elusive Permanence

Author:Yi-Fu Tuan

“Both of us were orphans. No one would remember what we remembered. The elders that stood as protective shields, as references to our past, and as reflections of who we were and are and where we came from, were gone.”

Past Remember Grief Gone Reflection Remembered Our Past Elders Shields Protective Orphan Where We Came

Author:Sylvia Browne

“In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.”

World Past Form Reflection Casts Streams Fleeting Rushing

Author:Dogen

“When you are a young person, you are like a young creek, and you meet many rocks, many obstacles and difficulties on your way. You hurry to get past these obstacles and get to the ocean. But as the creek moves down through the fields, it becomes larges and calmer and it can enjoy the reflection of the sky. It's wonderful. You will arrive at the sea anyway so enjoy the journey. Enjoy the sunshine, the sunset, the moon, the birds, the trees, and the many beauties along the way. Taste every moment of your daily life.”

“THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINS Laugh, I tell you And you will turn back The hands of time. Smile, I tell you And you will reflect The face of the divine. Sing, I tell you And all the angels will sing with you! Cry, I tell you And the reflections found in your pool of tears - Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterday To guide you through the fears of tomorrow.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“The universe contains many planets which make it what it is – a unified system. In addition, our bodies contain many organs, and each part is congruent to a planet in our solar system. The universe we see out our eyes is a mirror of what is within us. This is what God meant by making man in his image. We are all made as a reflection of God and that reflection of him is within us. Furthermore, not only are all religions connected to the same Truth, or Cosmic Heart, but this concept is also mirrored in the pantheons of ancient religions, where each of the many gods simply represented one set of characteristics of the ONE. And in all cases, these many gods symbolized the planets, therefore mimicking the different parts of the universe and the ONE God’s many mirrors (He Who is All). The structure behind all polytheistic religions of the past and present is one and the same. They are all built on the same foundation as Nature.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem