Past Quotes - Page 4

• Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Time, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Moments, Draws

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Remembrance of Things Past: The Sweet Cheat Gone”, p.64, Marcel Proust

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• The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

  Rene Descartes

  Wisdom, Book, Reading

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• Change no one. Change nothing. React to no one, react to nothing. Do not live in the past and do not, worry about the future. Stay in the eternal now, where all is well. After all you are me and I am you. There's no difference. Do not react to the world. Do not even react to your own body. Do not even react to your own thoughts. Learn to become the witness. Learn to be quiet.

  Robert Adams

  Change, Future, Learning

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• Nothing is Improbable until it moves into the Past Tense.

  George Ade

  Time, Moving, Tense

  "Hand-made Fables".

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• There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Time, Memories, Future

  Bhagwat S. Goyal, Eugene O'Neill (1975). “The Strategy of Survival: Human Significance of O'Neill's Plays”, Ghaziabad : Vimal Prakashan

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• You must try never to regret what might have been, child. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot yet see.

  Richard Martin Stern

  Regret, Might, Happens

  "Stanfield harvest".

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• The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.

  John Welch

  Anchors, People, Trouble

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• Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?

  Brian Tracy

  Life, Wise, Over The Past

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 23, 2011

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• There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

  Michael Connelly

  Moving On, Heartbreak, Letting Go

  Michael Connelly (2008). “The Brass Verdict”

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• The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Water, Grind, Mills

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• You're so ashamed of your past; drop it! You're so proud of your past; drop it!

  Anthony de Mello

  Proud, Ashamed, Your Past

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• Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

  Tennessee Williams

  Life, Inspiring, Memories

  Tennessee Williams (1964). “The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore”, p.36, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

  Peter De Vries

  Nostalgia, Used, Used To Be

  Quoted in L.A. Times, 26 July 1964

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• There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

  James Joyce

  Flow, Eternal

  Said to Jacques Mercanton on the structure of Ulysses. "James Joyce: The Critical Heritage". Book by Robert H. Deming, p. 22, 1997.

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• Look back, and smile on perils past.

  Walter Scott

  Smile, Looks, Peril

  Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott ...”, p.339

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• The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Forever, Stills

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• The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past.

  Alfred Bunn

  Light, Glory, Faded

  Alfred Bunn (1846). “The grand serious opera, entitled The maid of Artois. Words”, p.27

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  People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Motivational, Yesterday, People

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• A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Future, History, Historical

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.223, Penguin

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• People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Events, Stories

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.117, Random House

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• Don't stumble over something behind you.

  Seneca the Younger

  Motivational, Wisdom, Inspiration

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• Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Time, Lady Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

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• Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Diving Deep, Sea, Swim

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• Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

  Tryon Edwards

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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