#past

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

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present. ↗

— Les Brown

#about #carrying #feelings #happened #hinder

Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves. ↗

— Guy Laliberte

#always #biggest #challenging #continue #creative

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#centuries #change #china #chinese #chinese government