Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ

“My house says to me, "Do not leave me, for here dwells your past."
And the road says to me, "Come and follow me, for I am your future."
And I say to both my house and the road, "I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in my staying; and if I go there is a staying in my going. Only love and death will change all things.”
― Khalil Gibran

“You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“He who does not know his past cannot make the best of his present and future, for it is from the past that we learn.”
― Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan

“I read to know the past, I write to express my love for the future.”
― Debasish Mridha

“But I cannot be worrying-worrying all the time about the truth. I have to worry about the truth that can be lived with. And that is the difference between losing your marbles drinking the salty sea, or swallowing the stuff from the streams. My Niece-of-Shame believes in the talking cure, eh?" says Alsana, with something of a grin. "Talk, talk, talk and it will be better. Be honest, slice open your heart and spread the red stuff around. But the past is made of more than words, dearie. We married old men, you see? These bumps"--Alsana pats them both --"they will always have daddy-long-legs for fathers. One leg in the present, one in the past. No talking will change this. Their roots will always be tangled. And roots get dug up. Just look in my garden - birds at the coriander every bloody day...”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings...Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe...no war ever posed a greater threat to our security. If you are awaiting a finding of "clear and present danger," then I can only say that the danger has never been more clear and its presence has never been more imminent...For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.”
― ohn F. Kennedy

“Take revenge, not by hurting someone, but by succeeding in life and helping those who were hurting you in the past.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date—one that you can’t see until she tells you she’s leaving, and then she’s gone.”
― Laura Miller, By Way of Accident

“L I V E or E V I L -- to Live life is to spell forward. To not live life is to spell backwards.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The past isn’t always as beautiful as we paint it in our minds.”
― Laura Miller, By Way of Accident

“They say that when people still rode on vehicles powered by oil, they could go anywhere they wanted.”
― Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, Route 20

“Our future paths are defined by how we turned and walked the road in the past.”
― Kat Lahr

“Memories haunting her,
laughters chasing her,
sweet talks stalking her.
Everywhere she go,
everything she does,
it all leads back to him.”
― S G

“As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

“The present is the equilibrium of the past and the future. (Le ±è°ùé²õ±ð²Ô³Ù, c'est l'é±ç³Ü¾±±ô¾±²ú°ù±ð - Du ±è²¹²õ²õé et du futur)”
― Charles de Leusse

“A part of me will probably always be waitinâ€� for her. And even when I get to the end of this life and she’s not there, I think I’ll still just wait. It’s the cruel reality of love, I think—that once you find it, it’s yours to carry. And even if you lose it and never find it back again, I think you still just keep on carrying it...and waitin’—long after the curtain closes.”
― Laura Miller, By Way of Accident

“But kind of like when you move something on a wall after it’s been there for a long time, and its place is bright but everything around it is faded—that’s how I feel about her. She wasn’t there very long, but when she left, everything around her memory sort of dimmed.”
― Laura Miller, By Way of Accident

“magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

“We’re all livinâ€� in the past...we’re really always eighty milliseconds behind life happeninâ€�. ...that’s how long it takes our brains to comprehend what’s already taken place right in front of our eyes. So, I guess I’m not alone. Everyone’s livinâ€� in the past, to some extent. I’ve just become a prisoner of mine. ... I’ve become a prisoner—willingly. But then I guess you really can’t be called a prisoner if you willingly carry the chains.”
― Laura Miller, By Way of Accident

“Il passato non si può cambiare, con l'accettazione, il perdono, la penitenza e risoluzione, possiamo ampliare il futuro.

The past cannot be changed. With acceptance, forgiveness, atonement and resolution, we can broaden the future.”
― Angelica Hopes, Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul

“One minute you are here and the next moment you are some place else, some time a long ago. That is the thing about your mind. Memories. Everything still exists in the folds of your brain; you may try to forget or honestly believe that you have forgotten but nothing is ever erased. Every memory is registered, good or bad does not matter. Sometimes you bring some out on purpose, sometimes some memory jumps at you on its own, shocking you, shaking you, making you realize how far you have come and at the same time proving to you that you can never really go far enough.”
― Arti Honrao

“History is about the past. Yet it exists only in the present â€� the moment of its creation as history provides us with a narrative constructed after the events with which it is concerned. The narrative must then relate to the moment of its creation as much as its historical subject. History presents an historian with the task of producing a dialogue between the past and the present. But as these temporal co-ordinates cannot be fixed, history becomes a continuous interaction between the historian and the past. As such, history can be seen as a process of evaluation whereby the past is always coloured by the intellectual fashions and philosophical concerns of the present. This shifting perspective on the past is matched by the fluid status of the past itself.”
― Dana Arnold

“Then you think, is this a better world, closer to the
one before you knew of wars�
earth wars? Before you found that canary in its cage
laying, barely heaving. And you took it outside and said, Go Free! Go free!
But it died there, right in your hands�
like all of life.

Is the ash in trees, babies, flowers, and visions of God
better than the visions themselves? Then you think,
none of this is tangible or concrete. So you have another cigarette
and think about the (not one) but many ghosts you keep tucked away,
under sheets, under beds, in notes, within other ghosts.”
― Derek Keck, The Kitchen Sinks of Yesterday Morning: The Urinal Cakes of Tomorrow

“He lived decades ago,
she lives at the moment.
A very saddening reality for her.”
― S G

“Historians conquer the past, not the future. (Les historiens conquièrent - Le ±è²¹²õ²õé, non l'avenir)”
― Charles de Leusse

“Never carry the baggage of your past relationships on the honeymoon of your future relationships.”
― Faraaz Kazi

“I was right when I said a very long time ago that our age would leave few living documents behind it: it was rare for anyone to keep a diary, letters were short and businesslike--"I'm alive and well"--and few memoirs were written. There are many reasons for this. Let me mention just one, not perhaps recognized by everybody: we were too often at loggerheads with our own past to give it proper thought. Within the half-century, our ideas on people and events have changed many times; conversations were broken off in mid-sentence; thoughts and feelings could not but be affected by circumstances.”
― Ilya Ehrenburg

“Is the ash in trees, babies, flowers, and visions of God
better than the visions themselves? Then you think,
none of this is tangible or concrete. So you have another cigarette
and think about the (not one) but many ghosts you keep tucked away,
under sheets, under beds, in notes, within other ghosts.”
― Derek Keck

“The mind would rather fret about the future or pine over the past â€� so the mind can cling to its own illusion of control. But the current moment? It cannot be controlled. And what a mind can’t control, it tends to discount. Brush past ... over. It’s the battle plan of the enemy of the soul â€� to keep us blind to this current moment, the one we can’t control, to keep us blind to Him, the One who controls everything.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections on Finding Everyday Grace

“I say, we live on, though I am wrong, this is what I say.
In the past, present, future, we live on as if in one time.
You can never stop the past from happening,
and it has happened , and will continue to happen.
This is the truth, I think I know, along with

the two other things I do know.
I exist.
I want to kiss you.

And also this: each day, as we go,
we will always be as young as we can be.”
― Derek Keck, The Kitchen Sinks of Yesterday Morning: The Urinal Cakes of Tomorrow