#past

"After his experience with Minos, Nico realized that most spectres held only as much power as you allowed them to have. They pried into your mind, using fear or anger or longing to influence you. Nico had learned to shield himself. Sometimes he could even turn the tables and bend ghosts to his will."

"Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground."

"When I lost her I gained the future, because she was my past, and she freed me to become who I was born to be."

"Past, I am letting you go. Future, I will see you tomorrow. Present, I love you, live in you, celebrate you, and will never let you go."

"I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing."

"My ex-girlfriend was exquisite, while my current girlfriend is merely quisite. The ex always makes the past seem more excellent than the present."

"Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past."

"How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world,"I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?"

"You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past."

"Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip."

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

"What comes, when it comes, will be what it is."

"I'm involved in quite a few ministries as a bridge builder, trying to match generous givers and donors to other ministries. Based on my past, I'm also involved in mainly the prison ministry. I go to jails and prisons and share my story, trying to give them some hope."

"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."

"but her mind feels feverish as it races through the crowded hallways of the past"

"Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope."

"I have a Rubik’s Cube for a rearview mirror, because the past is the only time puzzle I can solve. My love for her only looks clear there."

"We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices."

"In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution."

"The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die."