#past

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#age #book #entirely #epics #found

If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#consciousness #presence #experience

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#action #better #err #even #hesitate

My training has been going really well these past few days and my goal is to keep it up for the next few weeks and hopefully earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic team. ↗

— Sasha Cohen

#days #earn #few #goal #going

I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#am #away #born #country #face

I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#events #i #life #life is too short #past

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work. ↗

— Robbie Coltraine

#best #best work #buy #car #cars

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#back #heroes #live #momentum #narrow

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#first #like #monogamy #never #over

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past. ↗

— John Corigliano

#destroy #everything #french #french revolution #modernist