Insecure people often falsify the past, in order to make the future pure.
In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live.
I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect.
Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and the increase in numbers during the past three years has been phenomenal.
Embrace the future and keep your back up against the past.
You can't dwell in your past but move forward, look forward. That's it.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
Let’s forget the past and keep in mind the future, but enjoy the present moment.
A cynic is a person who sees things as it is; he has no concept of future or past.
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?
I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.
We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.
Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.
I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.
A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.
If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.
To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal with it and to write about it.
