#past

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future. ↗

— Joel A. Barker

#function #future #make #past #prophecy

Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing. ↗

— Enid Blyton

#looking-back #punishments #remorse #undo-past-mistakes #undone

You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep rereading the last one ↗

— Unknown

#living #past #present #life

Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. 'Nonsense, Patricia,' I tell her as I climb on board my train. 'The past's what you take with you. ↗

— Kate Atkinson

#past #life

...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#past-and-future #spiritual

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#god #gods #past

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural? ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#cultural #economic #figure #heard #national

I am not nostalgic for the past. ↗

— Christian Lacroix

#i #i am #nostalgic #past

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#because #care #concerned #far #future

I hate the past - especially my own past. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#hate #i #my own #own #past