Past And Future Quotes
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“...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.”
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.”
― The Weird Sisters
― The Weird Sisters
“If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.”
― World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird
― World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird
“Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.”
― Fugitive Pieces
― Fugitive Pieces
“I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons.”
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“The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right.”
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“The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.”
― Only the Deplorable
― Only the Deplorable
“Normality wasn't in the days I'd left behind me: it was only to be found in whatever fortune placed in my path each morning.”
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“Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to catch it, hold it in your hand. It disappears every time.”
― Green Heart
― Green Heart
“On the night Sam went missing, it occurred to Sadie that nothing in life was as solid-state as it appeared. A childish game could be deadly. A friend might disappear. And as much as a person might try to shield herself from it, the possibility for the other outcome was always there. We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life that you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen. And sometimes, this other life felt as palpable as the one you were living. Sometimes, it felt as if you might be walking down Brattle Street, and without warning, you could slip into this other life, like Alice falling down the rabbit hole that led to Wonderland. But it wouldn't be strange like Wonderland, not at all. Because you would have expected all along that it could have turned out that way. You would feel relief, because you had always wondered what that other life would have looked like. And there you were.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“He wanted to leave the past a few hundred miles down the road, shake it off like dust. But that ws the problem with the past. It kept finding him.”
― The Keeper: A Novel
― The Keeper: A Novel
“He may actually have been existing in the past and approximating a conceivable future, which brought even the assumption of his immediate perceptions as being in the present into doubt. And thus, he couldn’t—beyond a hint of skepticism—say that he truly existed right now and in this moment, but instead it seemed more rational to assume that he simply existed and nothing more.”
― Don't Forget to Breathe
― Don't Forget to Breathe
“In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.”
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“You need to let people in, let go of the past. Sometimes that leads to beautiful things.”
― Sky Ice
― Sky Ice
“We have in the past a brilliant, an unsurpassed record. Let our future eclipse it in our eagerness for glory, our love of country, and our determination to beat the enemy. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, Article in -Sumter Republican-, October 29, 1864.”
― Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
― Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
“Living in the past was a dangerous thing, but so was living without a future.”
― Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark
― Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark
“A surreal combination of revulsion and wonder overwhelmed her, the feeling of betrayal, the scrape of a bear’s claw. Being an adult child did not equip her to deflect the wound.
“Women ought to interview their prospective partner’s children, don’t ya think?” She muttered, “I mean, from their first marriage, to see if the man they say they want to marry is really the man they want to marry!”
― The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch
“Women ought to interview their prospective partner’s children, don’t ya think?” She muttered, “I mean, from their first marriage, to see if the man they say they want to marry is really the man they want to marry!”
― The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch
“You can’t change your past, but you can alter your future by steering a new course in the present.”
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“I am like someone who is building a bridge. But it is no ordinary bridge. On one bank I stand ...... That is the present and there I have already driven in the first poles. And from this bank I am going to build my bridge, floating in space toward the other bank that I often see not at all and otherwise only see as in a fog. Only now and then I see it quite clearly in my dreams. And then I do not know if this bank means the past or the future. This question then awakes in me: Have I only had a past or have I not had any past at all, or do I only have a future and no past?”
― Lili: A Portrait of the First Sex Change
― Lili: A Portrait of the First Sex Change
“Rarely did events play out as imagined, in any case. The order of future events was transient. In the same way that the past was reconfigured by selective memory, future events, too, were moving targets. One could only act on instinct, grab hold of an intuited perfect moment, and spring into action. One heartbeat late and the universe would have recomposed itself, no imposition of will sufficient to forestall the currents. One could only observe and react. Surprise was the element absent from any periodic table. A keystone element; a missing ingredient. The means by which the Force amused itself. A reminder to all sentient beings that some secrets could never be unlocked.”
― Darth Plagueis
― Darth Plagueis
“History is repeating. But it doesn’t have to go the same way as last time. While learning from the past and changing shape… history will keep on going – toward the hope of tomorrow.”
― Star Wars Rebels, Vol. 3
― Star Wars Rebels, Vol. 3
“The darkness and the wind, the land and the water, the past and the future gathered here in the still point of the present, the past unredeemable, the future nothing but the past waiting to happen.”
― The Big Dark Sky
― The Big Dark Sky
“Inasmuch as relics are a reminder of history, your past shouldn't be a bridge between what was and what remains for gossips, rumours and personal attacks.”
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