#past

Faith may be encouraged by what has happened in the past, or what is thought to have happened in the past, but the only proof of it is in the future. ↗

— Sydney Carter

#faith #future #happened #in the past #may

My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life. ↗

— Nick Cassavetes

#daughter #diagnosed #disease #four #had

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment. ↗

— Chanakya

#anxious #deal #discernment #fret #future

I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China. ↗

— Jung Chang

#been #between #china #chinese #constant

I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament. ↗

— Michael Chang

#attitude #close #come #even #feel

I think I could look back through the past few years at missed opportunities and stuff, but one thing I have learned is not to dwell on missed chances or times where you have failed. ↗

— Michael Chang

#chances #could #dwell #failed #few

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#books #dead #distant #god #heirs

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express. ↗

— George A. Smith

#deeds #evil #express #figure #habit

I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past. ↗

— Kalpana Chawla

#after #basically #figure #figured #future

In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public. ↗

— Frank Church

#american public #cia #committee #concern #covert