The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.
I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.
A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
Boys have said in the past that I live my life like a movie. I love all things romantic, like kissing in the rain.
It would be very unwise to beg anyone who abandoned you in the past to come into your beautiful present.
He`s quite extraordinary with his moves and spins. I think he was a baton girl in a past life [on his co-star Hayden Christensen].
My heart, always so strong in the past, was like the fishnet stockings that clung to my legs—torn, shredded, and full of gaping holes.
Pannenberg's conception of retroactive continuity ultimately means that history flows fundamentally from the future into the past, that the future is not basically a product of the past.
For the innocent, the past may hold a reward, but for the treacherous it's only a matter of time before the past delivers what they truly deserve.
People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.
Don't recide in the past. Instead, refer to it, else you will remain in the remand of high demand but with low command
Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.
Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution.
I don't think you can run around and crash and bang quite the way that I might have done in the past.
I don't want to just model. Anyone can do that. I've let myself be in magazines in the past without participating as much as I should have.
It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.
It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
