#past

You can’t run away. The past will be only too happy to chase you —- in absolute, complete, and total earnest. Do you know why? Because they’re lonely. The past and memories are very lonely things. I don’t believe in God. Because he doesn’t have a fixed form. The past certainly does exist, even in a world where the future doesn’t have a fixed form. Even if it’s being colored by misunderstandings and delusions, a person’s past can’t be anything but the truth as long as he believes in it. If that’s what you base your actions or your way of life on, isn’t that like being god? ↗

— Ryohgo Narita

#izaya #past-and-future #life

I refuse to live life with unsettled differences”. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#forgiveness #john-paul-warren #leadership #motivation #pastor

I'm a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I discovered love. ↗

— Meg Rosoff

#love #past #present #age

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#avoid #been #being #career #grow

Study the past if you would define the future. ↗

— Confucius

#future #history #learning #moving-forward #past

Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it ↗

— Sara Shepard

#past

I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#always #care #future #good #i

I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#also #always #i #i always #i think

It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant. ↗

— Jean Webster

#happiness #life #live #past #regret

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#books #in the past #past #store #surprises