You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Showing posts with label The Past Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Past Quotes. Show all posts
Yesterday I lived, today I suf...
Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.
Why should we grope among the ...
Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?
Where I was born and where and...
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
When the past has taught us th...
When the past has taught us that we have more within us than we have ever used, our prayer is a cry to the divine to come to us and fill us with its power.
When I want to understand what...
When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
When I am anxious it is becaus...
When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.
We live in the present, we dre...
We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.
We have to do with the past on...
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
We have inherited new difficul...
We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.
We can never go back again, th...
We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still too close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest... might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion, as it had before.
We are well advised to keep on...
We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.... We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
Was it always my nature to tak...
Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?
Truth, however bitter, can be ...
Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.
To look backward for a while i...
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
To disdain today is to prove t...
To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
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