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Quotes About Past

The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct
~ Joyce Carol Oates
This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
There's a German term- heimweh, homesickness. It's a powerful sensation, like a narcotic. A yearning from home, but for something more- a past self, perhaps. A lost self. When I first saw you on the street, Katya, I felt such a sensation… I have no idea why
~ Joyce Carol Oates
My crappy-kid's life. It was mostly a shitty life wasn't it, OK but I miss it.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
the term "trauma" was not common usage. Like other adults of the era my parents believed that healing was a matter of not dwelling upon the past.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The truth is always revealed through the Word; but sadly, people don't always accept it. It is a painful process to face our faults and deal with them. Generally speaking, people justify misbehavior. They allow their past and how they were raised to negatively affect the rest of their lives. Our past may explain why we're suffering, but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.
~ Joyce Meyer
I knew where I had come from, but I did not know where I was going. I felt that my future would always be marred by my past. I thought, "How could anyone
~ Joyce Meyer
Our problem is that we always want to hold on to the past and still go into the future. That is what is meant by having a double heart. In James 1:8 we read that a person who is of two minds is hesitating, dubious, irresolute, unstable, unreliable and uncertain about everything he thinks, feels or decides. The King James Version says, A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
~ Joyce Meyer
The facts about our past are powerless against the blood of Jesus and the Truth of His Word.
~ Joyce Meyer
A lot of people let the past dictate their future. Don't do that! Get past your past. We all have a past, but we all have a future. The Bible teaches us in Ephesians 2:10 that we are recreated in Christ Jesus so we might do the good works He planned beforehand for us and live the good life He prearranged and made ready for us.
~ Joyce Meyer
De ce sunt atât de sufocant?? Chiar am un mod exagerat de a aborda relaÈ›iile? Drept urmare, Janet a aflat c? ea se temea enorm s? nu fie respins? din cauza suferinÈ›ei îndurate în trecut, astfel încât atunci când cineva se ar?ta chiar ÅŸi puÈ›in prietenos cu ea, ea îÅŸi dorea s? fie mereu în preajma acelei persoane de team? s? nu piard? acea relaÈ›ie.
~ Joyce Meyer
the nostalgia for things that weren't yet lost.
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Esa noche volvieron a sucederse los sueños. ¿Por qué ese recordar intenso de tantas cosas? ¿Por qué no simplemente la muerte y no esa música tierna del pasado?
~ Juan Rulfo
It SMELLS ancient, - Dan Cahill
~ Jude Watson
Christmas came three days ago.
~ Judith McNaught
She wondered if he would try to make love to her and if he did, whether she would let him. It was hard to refuse if someone really wanted to, She tried to remember how she had refused someone in the past and then realized that she couldn't remember because she had never actually done it.
~ Judith Rossner
What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.
~ Walker Percy
Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.
~ Wallace Stegner
The light is nostalgic about mornings past and optimistic about mornings to come.
~ Wallace Stegner
It was the last nostalgia: that heShould understand.
~ Wallace Stevens
Consider the odd morphology of regret.
~ Wallace Stevens
It matters, because everything we say Of the past is description without place, a cast Of the imagination, made in sound; And because what we say of the future must portend, Be alive with its own seemings, seeming to be Like rubies reddened by rubies reddening.
~ Wallace Stevens
We cannot look at the past or the future except by means of the imagination but again the imagination of backward glances is one thing and the imagination of looks ahead something else. Even the psychologists concede this present particular, for, with them, memory involves a reproductive power, and looks ahead involve a creative power: the power of our expectations.
~ Wallace Stevens
It is all connected Dominick," she said. "Life is not a series of isolated ponds & puddles; life is this river you see below, before you. It flows from the past through the present on it's way to the future.
~ Wally Lamb