Alan Watts Quotes, Past Quotes, Reality Quotes

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

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The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Past Quotes , Hints Quotes

We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Past Quotes , Important Quotes

But don’t forget that memory is like salt: the right amount brings out the flavour in food, too much ruins it. If you live in the past all the time, you’ll find yourself with no present to remember.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Memories Quotes , Past Quotes

I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Exercise Quotes , Past Quotes

I think that part of my optimism comes from the belief that we as a people could actually, regardless of all the disadvantage of the past, regardless of the fact that a lot of other folks got a head start in the race, if we were able to make the race fair right now.

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And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Destiny Quotes , Past Quotes

Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.

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The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.

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Tags : Abby Sunderland Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Past Quotes

The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions of the future. But by the time the image reaches the eyes of the viewer, it belongs to the past, taking on the status of something retrieved.

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Tags : A. O. Scott Quotes , Eye Quotes , Past Quotes

Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once- But it is no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Heart Quotes , Past Quotes

While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.

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

Past art is subject to change.

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...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Past Quotes , Care Quotes

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Character Quotes , Past Quotes

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Past Quotes , Men Quotes

I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Dream Quotes , Past Quotes

The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Past Quotes , Baggage Quotes

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Regret Quotes , Past Quotes

The immediate source of a mind... must be a mind which existed before the conception took place; the mind must have a continuity from a previous mind. This we hold to prove the existence of a past life.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Karma Quotes , Past Quotes