#past

We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries. ↗

— Glen Duncan

#past #love

Rarely did events play out as imagined, in any case. The order of future events was transient. In the same way that the past was reconfigured by selective memory, future events, too, were moving targets. One could only act on instinct, grab hold of an intuited perfect moment, and spring into action. ↗

— James Luceno

#future #instinct #past #imagination

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past. ↗

— Jean Froissart

#entered #forge #i #material #noble

Once your past no longer has the power to define you, your future is, quite literally, yours for the taking. Every single beautiful thing you could possibly want or imagine will be yours. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#future #goals #our-pasts #overcoming-fear #past

We all have a past that may be worthy of some criticism". ~R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#humor #india #past #time #humor

She wakes in a puddle of sunlight. Her hands asleep beside her. Her hair draped on the lawn like a mantle of cloth. ↗

— Roman Payne

#love #nymph #ode #pastoral #pastorale

I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past, I want it to be in the future. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#love #love

We shouldn't be doing this." Dan broke the silence, his voice low. "We would both get in trouble." He stood up. "Let's go back." "We shouldn't be doing what?" I scrambled to my feet. "What exactly are we doing?" "This." "You mean consorting?" "Sure, consorting. Cavorting. Carousing." He paused to take a deep breath. "Kissing." Then he leaned in and pressed his mouth to mine. ↗

— Leila Sales

#kiss #love #past-perfect #romance #love

All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money. ↗

— RuPaul

#money #past #present #sins #thought