#past

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind. ↗

— Kiran Desai

#past #present #change

I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterated now; the face of the country may be changed; but the pillar is still there, to remind me how all things were when it was reared. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#life-experience #past #change

There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#past #present #change

If you have ever felt hopeless hang on The night you’re enduring may seem long but there is joy coming in the morning. Incredible changes are going to take place in your life as you begin to relinquish your past and renew your present. ↗

— Sue Augustine

#past #present #change

Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the past. The past was set and sealed. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#fond #past #present #sealed #tibby

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#capacity #change #decision #every #excuse

Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo. ↗

— Wade Davis

#culture #evolve #future #past #survival

...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#past #prayer #truth #change

We had our thing. It is a really good memory but now we're older. Things change. ↗

— Abbi Glines

#past #change

The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right. ↗

— Leslie T. Chang

#inspirational #past-and-future #change