Browsing Quotes With Tag: the-past (20)
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Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person “the world today” or “life” or “reality” he will assume that you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever.
Speaker: John KnowlesSource: A Separate PeacePosted: 17 Dec 2009 at 4:03 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Sometimes hidden from me
in daily custom and in trust,
so that I live by you unaware
as by the beating of my heart,Suddenly you flare in my sight,
a wild rose blooming at the edge
of thicket, grace and light
where yesterday was only shade,and once again I am blessed, choosing
again what I chose before.Speaker: Wendell BerrySource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 12:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The force of character is cumulative. All the forgone days of virtue work their health into this. What makes the majesty of heroes? The consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind. They shed their united light on the advancing actor. He is attended by a visible escort of angels.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you look back too much, you’ll soon be headed that way.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you look back too much, you’ll soon be headed that way.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:29 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Things that are done, it is needless to speak about… things that are past, it is needless to blame.
Speaker: ConfuciusPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 6:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonSource: Why We Want You to Be RichPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 9:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Answers are about the past, and abilities are about the future
Speaker: Robert T. KiyosakiSource: Increasing Your Financial IQPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 8:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to lies within us.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is only one day that you and I have to live for, and that’s today. There is nothing we can do about yesterday except repent, and there may be no tomorrow. The thing for us to do when we arise from our beds as God gives us a new day, is to take whatever comes to our hands, and do it to the best of our ability.
Speaker: Harold B. LeePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is one phrase which should be erased from your thinking and from the words you speak aloud. It is the phrase ‘if only.’ It is counterproductive and is not conducive to the Spirit of healing and of peace.
Speaker: Thomas S. MonsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Far-called, our navies melt away;
On dune and headland sinks the fire.
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!Speaker: Rudyard KiplingPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The shadow by my finger cast
Divides the future from the past:
Before it, sleeps the unborn hour,
In darkness, and beyond my power:
Behind its un-returning line,
The vanished hour, no longer thine:
One hour alone is in thy hands –
The now on which the shadow stands.Speaker: Henry Van DykePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:28 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is only one way on God’s green footstool that the past can be constructive; and that is by calmly analyzing our past mistakes and profiting by them – and forgetting them.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Salutation to the Dawn
Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence:
The bliss of growth
The glory of action
The splendor of beauty,
For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore to this day!
Such is the salutation to the dawn.Speaker: KalidasaPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The load of tomorrow, added to that of yesterday, carried today, makes the strongest falter.
Speaker: Sir William OslerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:53 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
…the Sirens’ song is an invitation to live in the past, and that is a kind of death…
Speaker: Bernard KnoxPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“That’s how it goes. We all do that.”
“You all write songs about each other?”
“No, but…”
It would take too long to explain about Marco and Charlie, and how they wrote Sarah, and how Sarah and her ex, the one who wanted to be someone at the BBC, how they wrote me, and how Rosie the pain-in-the-arse simultaneous orgasm girl and I wrote Ian. It’s just that none of us had the wit or the talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which is much messier, and more time-consuming, and leaves nothing for anybody to whistle.Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 9:13 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I can see that now. I can see everything once it’s already happened—I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand.
Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 9:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!