You didn’t,” she said in a resolute voice. “And you won’t in the future, because with each purging of your soul, your anger will subside until the only release you’ll need will be in my arms.
This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.
All the bad in my life led me to her, which makes me think that I can live with the past if she is my future. —HEW
But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you've made it this far, please remember: you will never be subjected to the temptation of feeling you must forgive, a man, as a woman.
Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.
Never has nostalgia held stronger sway; never has the belief in the redemptive possibilities of the future seemed so laughable.
Shadows go in front of you, leading into your future, and trail behind you, leaving a part of you in the past. They are clearest when we are in the light, and disappear when we lose ourselves in darkness.
People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.
And you asked why people always expected you to smile in photographs. And I told you it was because they hoped that in the future, there would be something to smile about.
I had a dream about you last night... You replaced all the people in your life with kittens. It felt more like a prediction of the future.
Even if you time travel your past, it can't be changed, likewise you can't possibly change your future, it is always the present which matters.
If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
One could speculate that lichens would be among the last inhabitants to succumb on a dying earth at some distant point in the future.
Sex exists in the now without past or future. If, for a single second, your minds drifts back to the past or forwards into the unknown, the moment withers like a dead plant and the passage of pleasure turns to a road of dust.
A good leader must have the wisdom to know when a pursuit is no longer worthy of being pursued - a time when the losses of the present must be accepted - and cut - to preserve the gains and providence of the future.
For many people it is the notion of time that makes them feel restless – that there just aren't enough hours in the day, that they are rushing, either on an hourly or daily basis or that life was somehow better in the past or will be so in the futu...
I shall not dwell in the past... I shall not dread the present... I shall not fear the Future... For as Long as I live... I shall only think of success.
It was a fitting animal for a priest. Cats guard the secrets of the otherworld and are liaisons with mystic realms. Protectors of esoteric knowledge, cats can open the gates through which a priest can see the future and gain insight.
Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real--the here-and-now. Seize the day.
I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.
A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.
