Quotes About Past

What makes action meaningful? Above all, meaningful action participates in a story. It has a past and a future. Meaningful action does not just come from nowhere, and it does not just vanish in an instant—it takes place in the midst of a story that matters.

You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.

Your regrets are only part of your story. They don't have to be the story. Your past should remind you. It doesn't have to define you.

There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.

a great future behind him, already

Que yo y otras muchas mujeres vayamos buscando heroínas de cuento de hadas en los libros es otra versión del mismo proceso: deseo validar mi reivindicación a poseer una parte equitativa del futuro, y expreso para ello la exigencia de que me concedan la parte del pasado que me corresponde.

Jani understood that all Freedom needed was to trust -- and, eventually, to love. And it was love -- the love that glowed in Freedom's beautiful, expressive eyes -- that had freed her. She had overcome her past, and released herself from her own curse.

Men can bury their past. An unmarried woman is her past. Whereas a wife has a social position. A spinster has none.

I have no lovers, if that is what you mean. I had them once, but that was when I was free.' 'One is never free. One has only the illusion of freedom. One is never free of obligations, whether explicit or implicit. The latter are the worst.

no man is free of his own history.

Time is not a ladder one ascends into the future but a ladder one descends into the past

Books hold our culture, our past, other worlds, the antidote for sadness.

Perhaps that was why she drove so fast, because she didn't want the girl to have the same sort of memories of childhood that she'd been left with: the fear in the pit of the stomach and the longing to be home in a familiar place.

disappearance. He lived alone. She had an idea that he might have been married once, but he didn't talk about children. He lived in Denby

Then they all jumped in again, sharing memories, telling the same old stories, because if they were talking about the past, somehow they didn't have to think too much about the present.

Ah pet, I've been wandering down memory lane. Not always a comfortable place to be.

He thought a lot about the old days. The memories clouded his thoughts and confused him.

Jerusalem is not the oldest city in the Western world, but its long and confused past takes us back to pre-Old Testament times.

Bravely going out into the world and trying, yet still deep down believing you're ruled by your past circumstances, is like forgiving someone but still hoping they sit in something wet.

I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.

When I wake up in night sweats, that's what I'm thinking about: what if someone grabs me from my past and says, 'I heard you drag me to filth on your podcast.'

It's the same with success and failure. There's always the momentum thing, but you just have to put whatever happened in the past behind you.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Do not forget from whence you've come.