Times Past Quotes - Page 2

• The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Missing, Power Of Now

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.49, New World Library

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• The only time is Now. All other times - past, present, and parallel - can be accessed in this moment of Now, and may be changed for the better.

  Robert Moss

  Past, May, Moments

  Robert Moss (2014). “The Boy Who Died and Came Back: Adventures of a Dream Archaeologist in the Multiverse”, p.12, New World Library

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• I am fascinated with times past.

  Frank Darabont

  Past, Fascinated

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• ...There's a lot more to be gained from being grateful than you might think. Managing your outlook towards appreciation and thankfulness feeds the soul. It brings calm and contentment. It lifts your levels of happiness and hope. Gratitude will amplify your positive recollections about times past, and in turn sets the stage for optimism about the future.

  Price Pritchett

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Grateful

  Price Pritchett (2006). “Hard Optimism: How to Succeed in a World Where Positive Wins”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Taken, Past, Destiny

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.46, editionNEXT.com

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• All the creations of God stretch out infinitely. All times, past, present and future for all beings, worlds unimagined

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, Other Worlds

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• Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

  T. S. Eliot

  Past, Quartets

  Four Quartets "Burnt Norton" pt. 1 (1936)

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• Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.

  Wendell Phillips

  Mean, Past, Men

  Wendell Phillips (1853). “Speech of Wendell Phillips in vindication of the course pursued by the American Abolitionists”, p.36

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• There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past.

  John Robinson

  Past, Perfect, May

  John Robinson, Robert Ashton (1851). “The Works of John Robinson: Pastor of the Pilgrim Fathers”, p.89

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• A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken.

  Marcel Proust

  Time, Sleep, Men

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• In times past there were rituals of passage that conducted a boy into manhood, where other men passed along the wisdom and responsibilities that needed to be shared. But today we have no rituals. We are not conducted into manhood; we simply find ourselves there.

  Kent Nerburn

  Responsibility, Boys, Past

  Kent Nerburn (2014). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love”, p.36, New World Library

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• To make a proper moral appraisal of the prevalence of severe poverty today, we should focus not on comparisons with times past, when the global average income was much lower, but on a comparison with what would be possible in our time, given the current global average income and level of technological and administrative development.

  Thomas Pogge

  Past, Average, Focus

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The time to recognize the power of community is here again. Not as some romanticized renaissance from times past, but as a necessarily new and innovative response to "life as it is offering itself to us."

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Past, Offering, Community

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• You have to understand, in the current academic climate, Intelligent Design is like leprosy or heresy in times past. To be tagged as an ID supporter is to become an academic pariah, and this holds even at so-called Christian institutions that place a premium on respectability at the expense of truth and the offense of the Gospel.

  William A. Dembski

  Christian, Intelligent, Past

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• I think we look back at times past with fondness because we were younger. Life had not yet begun pecking away at our innocence like buzzards on fresh road kill.

  Craig Ferguson

  Past, Thinking, Looks

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• He is never born, never dies, without beginning or end, eternal and infinite. Through all times, past, present and future, He remains the same. The origin and dissolution of the Universe is all within him. Nothing exists without his existence. He is everything.

  Rama Swami

  God, Past, Infinite

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• Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Past, Soul

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.130, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• For I assure Your Majesty that if God had not mysteriously assisted us and the victory had gone to Narváez, it would have been the greatest harm that Spaniards had done to each other for a long time past.

  Hernando Cortes

  Past, Long, Victory

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• True depression is a terribly real thing. Some of the noblest men and women in the world have been prone to it ... They may have no reason for feeling more unhappy at that particular period than at any other. Their worldly circumstances may be just what they have been for a long time past, and perfectly satisfactory. But there suddenly closes down on them a fog of the mind which exaggerates and distorts everything.

  J. E. Buckrose

  Depression, Real, Past

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• Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Kings, Taken, Past

  "Utopia of Usurers". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, pp. 15-17, 1917.

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• For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Ego, Important

  Eckhart Tolle (2008). “Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth”, p.16, Penguin

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• You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts.

  Mark Twain

  Past, Years, Numbers

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4122, Delphi Classics

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• We praise times past, while we times present use;
  Yet due the worship which to each we give.

  Ovid

  Past, Giving, Use

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• The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

  Susan Sontag

  Past, Quality, Photograph

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.22, Macmillan

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• the present is the merest flicker between the long long time past and the things that haven't yet happened but most assuredly will.

  Estela Portillo Trambley

  Past, Long, Happened

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