Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.
Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn’t mean I don’t embrace the new, but I don’t forget the past, either.
Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
I cut off my dreadlocks, but I couldn’t face throwing them away. They were so hard to grow, man. There’s a lot of work goes into those things. Some people keep a diary or a photo album to remind them of their past lives – well, I’ve got hair. Who knows? One day, maybe my grandchildren might want to see it.
The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.
Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.
I am excited to join the Workday Board at an exciting time in the company’s growth and look forward to leveraging my past experience as a technologist and entrepreneur to provide advice as they continue to look at new areas of growth.
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It’s a cacophony, it’s like a madness I think that’s been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.
You can’t do anything about the past.
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
When I met people in the past, even before saying hello, I felt like I should explain myself: This isn’t who I am!
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
When our systematic knowledge of human expressive behavior is more advanced, it will be possible to study the literary and historical documents of the past and to determine the expressed and implied views of personality that determined the behavior of our ancestors.
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
People say, ‘Don’t live in the past.’ But I guess it depends on how interesting your past is.
I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left everything out there. That’s what I’m most proud of. I can’t go win Wimbledon anymore, so if what I’ve done in the past is not good enough, let it go. Because I’m certainly not sitting around thinking about it.
I mean, don’t forget the earth’s about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
A ‘real pastor’ is not preaching of their own; they are speaking what God put in their heart by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is using them at that very moment to speak to the congregations situations -past, present, and future.
You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.
