Past Quotes - Page 9

• Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.

  Virginia Woolf

  Friendship, Women, Book

  "Selected Works of Virginia Woolf".

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• With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.

  George Eliot

  Time, Memories, Men

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus”, p.536, 谷月社

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• Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

  Philip Sidney

  Fear, Men, Thinking

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.100

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• I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

  Oscar Wilde

  Amusing

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• We can't own each other's past. The questioin is whether we have a future together.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Together, Futures Together

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• Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.

  Lauren Oliver

  Change, Letting Go, Running

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• Study the past, if you would divine the future.

  Confucius

  Change, Time, Philosophical

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• The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Your Past, Feels

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.106, BookBaby

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  The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Quoted in Providence Journal-Bulletin, 8 June 1994

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• Whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Prisoner

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Happiness, Thanksgiving

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Sketches by Boz”, p.172

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• The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Complaining, Done

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.678

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• What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

  Louise Erdrich

  Life, Long, Novelists

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• Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett". Book by Andrew Kilpatrick, 1994.

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• We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Marriage, Positivity

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• A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

  James M. Barrie

  Fall, Interesting, Safe

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  One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

  Golda Meir

  Inspiration, Trying, Censorship In Books

  "My Life". Book by Golda Meir, 1975.

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• Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Mar 18, 2015

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• A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.

  Plutarch

  Thankful, Dog, Horse

  "Plutarch's Lives".

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• While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspiration, Future, Politics

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.268, NewsMax Media, Inc.

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• I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Fear, Future, Desire

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• What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Travel, Carpe Diem, Journey

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• The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

  Susan Sontag

  Beauty, Time, Historical

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.69, Macmillan

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• The present is the key to the past

  Charles Lyell

  Keys

  Charles Lyell (2005). “The Geological Evidence of Man”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.

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