Things Past Quotes

• Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Past, Remembrance

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• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

  Mark Twain

  Birthday, Growing Up, Memories

  "Mark Twain's Own Autobiography," North American Review, 1 Mar. 1907

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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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• Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

  Leo Buscaglia

  Moving On, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

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• Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Sister, Letting Go, Brother

  Song: Don't You Think?, Album: Left of the Middle, 1997

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

  Mark Twain

  Birthday, Growing Up, Age And Youth

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.113, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

  Mark Twain

  Happy Birthday, Growing Up, 50th Birthday

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.113, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• Remembrance of things past.

  William Shakespeare

  Past, Remembrance, Nostalgia

  Sonnet 30

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• A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Past, Men, Anticipation

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.110, Commodius Vicus

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• It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspiration, Past

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1143, Delphi Classics

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• But fortunately for us and for all men, it has not been given unto us to judge, nor to execute, nor to measure out the days and the years of men. We may be most grateful that such matters belong to the Lord God our Father, who sees things past and things to come. And, we may be grateful for the assurance that there is plan and purpose in this world, and in our own lives.

  Richard L. Evans

  Life, Father, Grateful

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• An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past

  Pierre Corneille

  Past, Destiny, Mirrors

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• I read "Remembrance of Things Past" in the original French. I never start the day without reading me some [Marcel] Proust.

  Dave Barry

  Reading, Past, Remembrance

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.

  Walter Raleigh

  Past, Thinking, World

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1751). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and Philosophical; Together with His Letters and Poems. The Whole Never Before Collected Together, and Some Never Yet Printed. To which is Prefix'd, a New Account of His Life by Tho. Birch”, p.116

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• There is no gratitude for things past. Gratitude is always for what you're going to do for people in the future.

  Harry S. Truman

  Gratitude, Past, People

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• By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Past, Men, Expectations

  Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.23, Broadview Press

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• When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Past, Remembrance

  Sonnet 30

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• Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

  Matthew Fox

  Past, Space, Creation

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• True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.

  Robert Smith

  Eye, Past, Looks

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• One of the great things about humor is, you can slip things past people with humor, you can use it as a sweetener. So you can actually tell them things, give them messages, get terribly, terribly serious and terribly, terribly dark, and because there are jokes in there, they'll go along with you, and they'll travel a lot further along with you than they would otherwise.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dark, Past, People

  "Gaiman & Pratchett, Together Again... Almost". Locus Interview, www.locusmag.com. March 1991.

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• The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in rememberance more than long things past.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Sunset, Past

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