Quotes of: Past-life Keyword

The past is a reality that exists just beyond our reach.

Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

Willa Cather

Past beings interact with present ones because life and death are a continuum and expiration entails no loss of vital essence.

The Incas and their Ancestors: The Archaeology of Peru

I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence.

Selected Letters

We have all suffered losses and pain, but no loss is greater than a life lost holding-on to a painful past.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Your mistakes... Should always guide you to a better life And Not define you to help keep you in the past

Soul Vomit: Beating Down Domestic Violence

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Life's all about balance. To move on in life you have to strike a balance between your past, present, and your future; you may either be jerked off or left behind.

Richmond Akhigbe

Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.

Robin Hobb

I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?

Vanessa Paradis

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Andre Breton

The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?

Damien Hirst

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Helen Keller

I have thoughts - obtrusive thoughts and rituals that have to - it's like a broken re - a skipping record. And if these thoughts or these triggers happen to me through maybe shaking a hand or just a thought or just - then I can't get past it and move...

Howie Mandel

I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'

Ian MacKaye

We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response.

Margaret J. Wheatley

More than half of my life is past; I have left only the time I need for turning the rest of it to account and for effacing my errors by my virtues.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

what he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a past that changed gradually as he advanced on his journey, because the traveller's past changes according to the route he has followed: not the immediat...

Invisible Cities

When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying tha...

The Grammar of Science