Top Past And Present Quotes

The whole of China was overshadowed by the injustice of the past.

Like the line of love, I thought. Once crossed you can't go back. Like the line between past and future. Or maybe really the line between past and now. The now my father spoke of. When I raced ... I w...

We lavish more attention onto our past, after its done, than in the making of it. as a result; "What is done" and "Could have been" becomes ruthless killers lurking in the darkness of our consciousnes...

Don't everallowthe disharmony of otherstobecome your ownamindful practiceof discernment(and the dislike for wearing bullshit)buildsthe eye, heart and spiritual muscles.

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 th...

You know what her punishment is for tormenting you way back when? he said.I looked at him.He said, her punishment is being her,

My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted on me...

The formula for this brand of historical writing is to put the public on the inside; to let them feel the palpitations of royal and imperial lovers and to overhear their lispings and cooings. It can b...

The origin of illness may be in the past, but the virulent crisis must be dynamically tackled. I believe in attacking the core of the illness, through its present symptoms, quickly, directly. The past...

The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.

You invoke a new futurewhen you envision your pastin the light of your present.

The past and present are after all so close, almost one, as if time were an artificial teasing out of a material which longs to join, to interpenetrate, and to become heavy and very small like some of...

My past takes no hostages, no prisoners. I've let go of yesterday and am free to receive the beautiful gift of the present.

A person who can not deal with the past of others, can not deal with yours.

He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.

I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.

The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.

I hate to hate you, but what else have you left me with!