Quotes About Past

It is imperative for our own healing that "we" release the past and forgive everyone. "I forgive you for not being the way I wanted you to be. I forgive you and I set you free." This affirmation sets us free.

Cada uno de estos estados se genera en una falta de perdón, en una negativa implacable a renunciar al pasado y a concentrarse en el presente. El amor es siempre la respuesta para la curación, sea de la clase que sea. Y la senda que conduce al amor es el perdón. Al perdonar se disuelve el resentimiento. Esto suelo abordarlo de diversas maneras.

Blame is one of the surest ways to stay in a problem. In blaming another, we give away our power. Understanding enables us to rise above the issue and take control of our future. The past cannot be changed. The future is shaped by our current thinking.

To Release the Past, We Must Be Willing to Forgive We need to choose to release the past and forgive everyone, ourselves included. We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive, but the very fact that we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing process. It is imperative for our own healing that "we" release the past and forgive everyone.

Individuals had never much cared what had happened in the past, or would happen in the future, or how much others of their kind suffered or lacked. They did not care how many others died providing they lived. And government, to those who did not govern, had been largely a matter of indifference unless it happened to have a detrimental effect on the lives of individuals. Then, maybe, if the individuals had felt strongly enough, they had held protests, gone on strike, or started revolutions.

But there was no hiding from Conscience. Not in new homes and new cars. In travel. In meditation or frantic activity. In children, in good works. On tiptoes or bended knee. In a big career. Or a small cabin. It would find you. The past always did. Which was why... it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you. And found you... Who wouldn't be afraid of this?

it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you.

Non. He said, 'Be very, very careful who you let into your life. And learn to make peace with whatever happens. You can't erase the past. It's trapped in there with you. But you can make peace with it. If you don't,' he said, 'you'll be at perpetual war.

Old sins have long shadows," said Gamache. "And this is an old sin.

Not everything buried is actually dead. For many, the past is alive.

There was nothing like the pain of the present to cure the pain of the past.

Memories can kill, Yvette. The past can reach right up and grab you and drag you to a place you shouldn't be. Like a burning building.

Gamache watched the old poet. He knew what was looming behind the Mountain. What crushed all before it. The thing the Hermit most feared. The Mountain most feared. Conscience. ... Which is why, Gamache knew, it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you. And found you ... Who wouldn't be afraid of this?

It smelled of the past, of a time before computers, before information was "Googled" and "blogged." Before laptops and BlackBerries and all the other tools that mistook information for knowledge.

Which was why, Gamache knew, it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you.

Time, it covered over everything eventually. Events, people, memory. Chiniquy had disappeared beneath Time.

the answers lay in flesh and blood, not in a book and not in a report. And so often not even in things corporeal, but in something that couldn't be held and contained and touched. The answers to his questions lay in the murky past and in the emotions hidden there. The

Until we made peace with the less agreeable parts of our past they'd continue to heckle us from way down the long house. And sometimes the really loud, obnoxious ones told us what to do, directing our actions even years later.

leaden and laden by the recent past.

El pasado siempre acaba encontrándote. Y por eso, Gamache lo sabía muy bien, era fundamental ser consciente de las acciones del presente. Porque el presente se convierte en el pasado, y el pasado va creciendo. Y se alza, y te sigue. Y te encuentra.

Conscience. ... Which is why, Gamache knew, it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you. And found you ... Who wouldn't be afraid of this?" ? Louise Penny, The Brutal Telling

It smelled of the past, of a time before computers, before information was "Googled" and "blogged." Before laptops and BlackBerries and all the other tools that

You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.

You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things there are in a man's past that have stopped moving. The living people we've lost in the crypts of time sleep so soundly side by side with the dead that the same darkness envelops them all. As we grow older, we no longer know whom to awaken, the living or the dead.