The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn. —H. G. Wells More about this quote Tags: potential future past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past. —Tryon Edwards More about this quote Tags: future mistakes past regret apology Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way. —John Steinbeck More about this quote Tags: reality gratitude memory past perception bounty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How many people long for that “past, simpler, and better world,” I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them? —R.A. Salvatore More about this quote Tags: past perception self Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nothing has ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have? —Eckhart Tolle More about this quote Tags: power presence past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it. —Wendell Barry More about this quote Tags: past escape bad creation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you live in the past, you don’t enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. —Miguel Ruiz in The Four Agreements More about this quote Tags: life presence past enjoyment present Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future. —Sydney J. Harris More about this quote Tags: future cynicism past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My life had gone right; it had gone exactly as it needed to in order to bring me here. —Beth Harbison in Always Something There to Remind Me More about this quote Tags: life past regret Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It’s important to keep your options open. It’s important to live and not get hung up on the past. The past is called the past for a reason. If you are constantly looking behind you, your eyes aren’t on the road ahead. —Rachel Van Dyken in The Bet More about this quote Tags: future past focus Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. —Robertson Davies More about this quote Tags: future memory past nostalgia Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests. —Charles Lindbergh More about this quote Tags: reality future memory past dreams Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Stop looking at the past and all the things you can’t change. They’re done and over with. Now is the time for you to look to the future, grasp it by the hand, and decide where you want to go. —Lacey Weatherford in Chasing Nikki More about this quote Tags: power future past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Rather than concentrating on what you should have done, concentrate on what you can do now. —Rachel Van Dyken in Ruin More about this quote Tags: action now future past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. —Herb Caen More about this quote Tags: attention life memory past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email