Past - Quotes
Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
There are two kinds of people: ones that are trying to build their future and ones that are trying to rebuild their past.
Just as one wouldn`t draw a lasting conclusion about oneself on the basis of a brief experience of indigestion, one needn`t do so on the basis of how one has thought or behaved for vast stretches of time in the past. A creative change of inputs to the system - learning new skills, forming new relationships, adopting new habits of attention - may radically transform one`s life.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Some people feel like they don`t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps to the past.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
Don`t be afraid of your past. Learn from it so it can empower your present.
The Past is all holy to us; the Dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive.
Human knowledge is doubling every ten years. In the past decade, more scientific knowledge has been created than in all of human history.
Ever hear the saying, Life goes on? It does. Long past the point when everyone else thinks it stopped.
Who controls the past, [...] controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners going back millions of generations, and those winners were, in every generation, the luckiest of the lucky, one out of a thousand or even a million. So however unlucky you may be on some occasion today, your presence on the planet testifies to the role luck has played in your past.