"past"タグの名言

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

In English, consciousness and unconsciousness are part of a vertical plane, so that we wake up ↑ and we fall ↓ asleep and we sink ↓ into a coma. Chinese uses the horizontal line, so that to wake is to cross a border towards consciousness → and to faint is to go back ← . Meanwhile, time itself is vertical so that last year is “the year above” ↑ and next year is “the year below” ↓. The day before yesterday is the day “in front” ↑ and the day after tomorrow is the day “behind” ↓. This means that future generations are not the generations ahead, but the ones behind. Therefore, to look into the future one must turn around...

It's easy to write history. All the eyewitnesses are dead.

You are not made from your past. You simply exist in this time and only this time. Enjoy the moment. Experience.

All events and people you have cherished in the past, and all events and people that are yet to happen to you, exist at all times. This for sure beats the traditional concept of heaven!

I remember when you'll be a month old, and I'll stumble out of bed to give you your 2:00 a.m. feeding.

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

We walk unknowing amid the shadows of our past and, forgetting our history, are ignorant of ourselves.

You must not allow the hurt of the past to haunt or hinder you from fulfilling and performing your duties as one who has a passion to impact his society and make a change.

As she looks through the window; while seeing him give her his world, tears rolled down her cheeks as she remembers the world she once had.

Every love that once promised you a forever will leave you at some point in your life - and all that is left is a forever in boxes full of fading pictures and aching memories.

You deserve to feel whatever you want to about an experience you’ve endured from your past. But by replacing what you tell yourself about what happened to you means that you don’t have to keep reliving the unpleasantness or pain over and over again in your mind.

You are the director of your life movie, and can change, alter, enhance, and even erase an image, impression, scene, or scenario that serves no positive purpose for you to hold onto. Our memories create pictures in our minds, and we can change them, rearrange them, or delete them as we wish.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Cultura e un cimitir de cărți și de alte obiecte dispărute pentru vecie.

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.

Training is anchored in the past. Education looks to the future.

When you're caked in history, you're also caked in a lot of dirt.

I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now?

Everyone succumbs to finitude. I suspect I am not the only one who reaches this pluperfect state. Most ambitions are either achieved or abandoned; either way, they belong to the past. The future, instead of the ladder toward the goals of life, flattens out into a perpetual present.