#past

Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #nicholas-sparks #past #change

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#philosophy #reflection #imagination

...the wounds of the past and the scars of the present don't disfigure me in your eyes - because you know the price I pay for loving you ... ↗

— John Geddes

#eyes #past #present #price-of-love #scars

So I'm up the ghostie creek without an EMF meter ↗

— JoAnne Kenrick

#mullo #mulo #mystery #paranormal-romance #past-lives

Sometimes a word, a sound, triggers an image or recollection of something forgotten. A search for the truth sounds romantic, a thoughtful quest. As often as not, it is as mind numbing as reading a list of names or looking through scores of obtuse documents in the hope of finding a clear pattern, divined by not much more than intuition and observation. A shrugged-off remark can lead to more truth than studied responses to severe cross-examination. ↗

— Jackson Burnett

#jackson-burnett #lawyers #the-past-never-ends #the-search-for-truth #romantic

Fair as the moon and joyful as the light; Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright; Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#change #hope #longing #love #past

We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep, Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away; It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free. Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability! ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#emotions #future #life #mutability #past

I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#leave #life #live #past #change

Don't recide in the past. Instead, refer to it, else you will remain in the remand of high demand but with low command ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#demand #food-for-thought #forget-the-past #future #go-high

We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present. That now is the creative point of life. So you see its like the idea of forgiving somebody, you change the meaning of the past by doing that...Also watch the flow of music. The melody as its expressed is changed by notes that come later. Just as the meaning of a sentence...you wait till later to find out what the sentence means...The present is always changing the past. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#meaning #past #present #change