#past

What was I supposed to do then I wondered. Was there even a supposed-to for this kind of situation? A situation when when I looked at my receding past everything seemed retrospectively marked by an extreme order and predictability yet all moments since seemed to obey, and promised to continue obeying, their own set of stochastic, undisclosed, and undiscoverable laws. Where I was fully aware of the pitfalls and folly of a finely-tuned narcissism but still the known universe seemed to bend and bend inexorably inward and towards me where it awaited my next move, supremely ready to react accordingly. And how I knew that decisions I would soon make or defer would have near-Sophoclean import and yet nonetheless it all seemed oddly irrelevant. ↗

— Sergio De La Pava

#future #life #past #retrospective #uncertainly

live as temporal, serve as eternal ↗

— John Paul Warren

#john-paul #leadership #pastor-john-paul-warren #sozo-life #voice-of-the-nations

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#looking-forward #moving-forward #past-and-present #life

Don’t live in the past – you’ve already been there. And don’t live in the future, either. Tomorrow will be here soon enough. Live in this moment now – it is sacred and unrepeatable. This moment alone holds valuable gifts that should not be missed. ↗

— Steve Goodier

#life #live #moment #now #past

Living is like driving," my grandmother used to say. "You have to pick a lane." Have I chosen the right lane? It feels like this place, this moment in time, lies exactly halfway between my past and my future. ↗

— Kathleen Flinn

#future #life #past #life

What is our life: (Pause.) it’s looking forward or it’s looking back. And that’s our life. That’s it. Where is the moment? ↗

— David Mamet

#life #moment #past #present #life

...before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ... ↗

— John Geddes

#keepsakes #life #memories #moments #poetry

That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect. ↗

— Steve Carlton

#i #past #retrospect

Count your blessings, discount you’re loses ↗

— John Paul Warren

#john-paul-warren #leadership #pastor-john-paul-warren #sozo-life #leadership

The past is bound to be fragmentary, bound to be reconstructed, bound to be reinvented. It serves only to collect the truths of today. If our present is the child of the past, our past is the child of the present. And the future will be the harvester of our bastard offspring. ↗

— Amin Maalouf

#life #past #present #life