#past

Ludlow put a hand on his arm. "A friend of mine used to say, 'You cannot change the past, but every moment is an opportunity to change your future. ↗

— F.E. Higgins

#choosing-your-path-in-life #past-and-future #change

...knowing about your past lives is worse than useless if that knowledge doesn't bring you some kind of positive change or healing. ↗

— Lianne Downey

#past-livesves #reincarnation #spirituality #change

But you couldn't really start over. That was a huge, modern lie invented by talk-show hosts. Sure you could change things that improved your life, but all the bad stuff lingered. It lingered in your body compromising your organs. ↗

— Elizabeth Brundage

#change

Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we're drawn to it. ↗

— Frank Lentricchia

#film #frank-lentricchia #past #the-sadness-of-antonioni #communication

All the faces on the photographs have changed, To not confuse it all, the names remain the same ↗

— Antimatter

#friends #home #lyrics #missing #music

Be your self at your personal best ↗

— John Paul Warren

#john-paul #john-paul-warren #john-warren #leadership #pastor-john-paul-warren

As a result of things that may have happened in their past, women seem to find it hard to trust anybody. They are so worried that people will somehow dislike them if they have the courage to be themselves. They are convinced by society’s idea that you have to be thin to be beautiful. But you know what, my sister? You’re beautiful just as you are! ↗

— Corallie Buchanan

#inner-beauty #beauty

The ability to withstand the flinch comes with the knowledge that the future will be better than the past. ↗

— Julien Smith

#courage #flinch #future #knowledge #past

She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead. ↗

— Núria Añó

#feminism #freedom #gender #gender-inequality #hypocrisy

I decided I would not go to court to have my mother declared incompetent, I would not fight. I put the car in drive and hit the gas. I felt as if I'd jumped off a sinking ship and was in a life raft with my little girl, my face turned away from the horror, rowing, rowing, as fast and as hard as I could in the opposite direction. ↗

— Kaylie Jones

#courage #hope #past #courage