Laozi Quotes, Truth Quotes, Past Quotes

. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.

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The debt that each generation owes to the past, it must pay to the future.

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Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Past Quotes , Diving Deep Quotes

You think you might know something about yourself or why you act or react in certain ways and then you come to new information and suddenly you see your past and your present in a completely different light.

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Tags : A Fine Frenzy Quotes , Past Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

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When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes. The robb'd that smiles steals something for the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Grief Quotes , Past Quotes

Have not all past human beings parted, And must not all the present, one day part?

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Past Quotes , One Day Quotes

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

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Tags : Aidan Chambers Quotes , Past Quotes , Path Quotes

I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.

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Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Past Quotes , Cloaks Quotes

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Time Quotes , Past Quotes

Yet I did love thee to the last, As ferverently as thou, Who didst not change through all the past, And canst not alter now.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Past Quotes , Lasts Quotes

No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Taken Quotes , Past Quotes

Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Past Quotes , Great Gatsby Important Quotes

Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Children Quotes , Past Quotes

She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage, this interminable --- this interminable life.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Past Quotes , White Quotes

It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

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Within this moment, the only moment that exists, the past, present and future are contained.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Past Quotes

Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Past Quotes , Giving Quotes

If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Past Quotes , Games Quotes

Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Time Quotes , Past Quotes