Quotes of: Past-life Keyword

Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling the present. - From Under the Tuscan Sun, 2003

Life

That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.

Warren Zevon

Maybe in past years, perhaps women didn't feel quite as comfortable with revealing themselves, and their skills and their crafts... and now we are, so we're out there, just like the guys.

Chantal Kreviazuk

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

Christiane Amanpour

... a man could build whatever monuments he wanted in the worlds of politics, sports, entertainment, and business, but if they come at the expense of his children, then he has failed. Once the attention fades and the crowds stop cheering his name and...

A Chance in the World: An Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home

Some pasts exist as a fog that rolls in and out of the present, formed not by air that condenses into mist but memories that condense into tiny doors that open to forgotten moments. Maybe you glance at a stranger on a crowded street who reminds you o...

The Devil Walks in Mattingly

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his ...

Education of a Wandering Man

Whether our caretaker was our mom, dad, uncle, aunt, grandparent, foster parent, or sibling, our blueprint of what a relationship is supposed to look like is drafted by what we observed from our caretaker’s relationship. If our caretaker took their...

The Gift of Past Relationships

Adrian paled and went perfectly still as he stared at the newcomer, and in that moment, all my high hopes for him came crashing down. Earlier, I'd been certain that if Adrain could just stay away from his past and any traumatic events, he'd be able t...

Bloodlines

This is what I say: I've got good news and bad news. The good news is, you don't have to worry, you can't change the past. The bad news is, you don't have to worry, no matter how hard you try, you can't change the past. The universe just doesn't put ...

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

We’re so used to just glancing at the environment through the eyes of the past that we’re frequently not certain if we are in fact paying attention or if we merely think that we’re paying attention. Dynamic meditation in everyday existence invo...

Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation

My cheeks are red hot, my lip still trembles, because I sent my heart to speak; every word of it delusional and awkward, an exuberance, an abrupt sound. That's how I spoke, oh, it still shows on my hot cheeks I'm now carrying home. I look down at the...

Oppressive Light: Selected Poems by Robert Walser

Nostalgia" How often we use this word reminiscing about the past - our childhood, school days, college days.. We feel nostalgic, we dwell in the memories of the past, we talk about how great those days were and how we would do anything to just go bac...

Sanhita Baruah

My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease; Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, The uncertain sickly appetite to please. My reason, the physician to my love, Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, Hath...

William Shakespeare

Since the future's so iffy, I'll turn my attention to the past.

The City of Devi

As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past.

The Captive & The Fugitive

I felt good that, although there was no future, there would always be a past.

A Crowbar in the Buddhist Garden

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

Choke

The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.

Doomed

The past only has power over you when it's forgotten... ignored or repressed.

Desert Sons