I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence.
The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.
We have all suffered losses and pain, but no loss is greater than a life lost holding-on to a painful past.
Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.
I love Naples, Florida! Although, I’m so far behind everyone else there. After all, I’m still wearing my first face!
The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.
I've done nothing for the past five years but try to be the hero who protects her. The problem? Heroines don't need protecting.
Smartass Disciple: Master, I want to be the better me by forgetting my past. Master of Stupidity: If you just forget it, how would you measure you're better?
The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents - will you learn how to focus and move past boredom, or like a child will you succumb to the need for immediate pleasure and distraction?
You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. "Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful.
You can't run from feelings, Charity. You have to face them. Otherwise your future will look just like your past.
A lady with a past has nothing to lose. But a woman with a future can't be too careful.
In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to greater loss.
Underneath, he was a good cat. Loyal and loving. But no one ever bothered to look past his rough exterior, because in reality, looks meant more than everyone wanted to admit.
He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.
You have the here and now. You have a future. Deal with the past so you can stop looking back. It's just the pain.
Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.
Our parents' generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off. Even our national history is remembered in terms of the worst we did, not the best.
People forget history nowadays,that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one had lived.
Nakajima’s past would always be there, so the foundation could crumble at any moment. That’s what happens, I realized, when people destroy other people.
It was time to let go of the mad desire to remember. It was time to start living whatever life would come. In the present, not the past.
