#past

The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle. ↗

— James Hutton

#admitted #employed #except #explained #globe

To forget the past so easily seems scarcely loyal to oneself. I am so selfishly absorbed in my present self that I have grown not to care a damn about that ever increasing collection of past selves- those dear, dead gentlemen who one after the other have tenanted the temple of this flesh and handed on the torch of my life and personal identity before creeping away silently and modestly to rest. ↗

— W.N.P. Barbellion

#life

I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other. ↗

— David Selby

#been #depend #difficult #each #family

I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present. ↗

— Bill Condon

#connections #i #make #past #present

Study the past, if you would divine the future. ↗

— Confucius

#future #past #study #would #you

The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past. ↗

— Anita Desai

#back #backwards #begins #believe #book

I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will be extinguished when I am. Well, but again, this life has its own mortal loveliness. And memory is not strictly mortal in its nature, either. It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have any reality at all, even in its passing. A moment is such a slight thing. I mean, that its abiding is a most gracious reprieve. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#mortality #past #beauty

Over the past decade, prescribing information has grown more and more complex, more and more dense and more difficult to negotiate. ↗

— Andrew von Eschenbach

#decade #dense #difficult #grown #information

Let today be the day you finally release yourself from the imprisonment of past grudges and anger. Simplify your life. Let go of the poisonous past and live the abundantly beautiful present... today. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#grudges #happiness #life #past #simplify

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction. ↗

— Charles J. Givens

#failures #inaction #losses #past #reason