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Here between the hither and the farther shore
While time is withdrawn, consider the future
And the past with an equal mind. — T. S. Eliot

I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future. — Alan Dundes

We were fishers of memory waiting on the banks of time and waiting for the past to swallow the date. — Yu Hua

Die! Die to the ego, die to your past, and you will be resurrected. That resurrection will make you go beyond death, beyond time, beyond misery. — Rajneesh

When you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time. — Will Schwalbe

The time to be judgmental was past on the cross of Jesus Christ ,try to have God's heart of mercy and grace which will leads to salvation. — Wordfaith3

If my time on earth were through and she must face the world without me, is the love I gave her in the past gonna be enough to last? — Garth Brooks

Reading is a time machine that allows you to acquire wisdom from the past and to analyze and imagine another person's vision of the future. — Joshua Rogers

For he lives twice who can at once employ,
The present well, and e'en the past enjoy. — Alexander Pope

They seemed happy and at peace. I knew the feeling for the first time. — Karen F. Riley

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past. — Fidel Castro

It's like saying you're fixed in the past, and
you're running out of time. Every moment is only the beginning of
something new — Priscille Sibley

I love having first-time experiences. When you're past the age of 20 or so, there are less and less first-time experiences. — Justine Bateman

I'm so damned literary
and at the same time the waters rushing past remind
me of nothing
I'm so damn empty — Frank O'Hara

Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance. — M.L. Stedman

For when we read, don't we summon the past into the present? Hold out our hand and invite an author to sit with us for a time? — Ari Berk

If the past is older than the present, then the future must be younger. And we must all go backward with each passing year. — Richard Powers

Unlike the animals, who knew only the present, Man had acquired a past; and he was beginning to grope toward a future. — Arthur C. Clarke

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking. — Moshe Safdie

sense trying to make him feel bad about it. She tilted back her glass and went past the gin for a second time. She — Ann Patchett

From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future. — Muhammad Iqbal

$100,000 donors buy access to Congress and the White House. We believe it's long past time to clean up Washington. — William J. Clinton

While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time. — John Edward Williams

Dont dwell on the past when the future smiles bright and the present is by your side — Karinush2828

Any time you try to collapse the distance between your delusions about the past and what really happened, there is suffering involved."
p. xx — Mary Karr

Time heals the wounds of the past,
Apology, forgiveness, and acceptance
does lighten the scars. — Rhoendyl RCruz

He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present. — Larry McMurtry

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward. — Djuna Barnes

Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future. — Francisco De Quevedo

I read that Buddha was able to see all of his past lives, and I realized the only way any of these people could do that is by being outside of time. — Fred Alan Wolf

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears. — Rollo May

One condemns the whole past as a time of ignorance and prejudice, while knowing nothing of that past and very little of the present. — Julia P. Gelardi

I sometimes use music as way of getting back to a certain time, dredging up stuff from the past and putting it down on canvas. — Danny Fox

The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now. — Bill Cosby

That's one benefit of travelling to your own future, and making the trip part of your past. — James A. Owen

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History. — Thomas Carlyle

All writers must go from now to once upon a time; all must take care not to be captured and held immobile by the past. — Margaret Atwood

If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment. — Elif Shafak

Time moved forward, but the mind was restless and stubborn, and it skipped to wherever it pleased, often to the past: backward, always backward. — Edan Lepucki

We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one. — Doug Dillon

Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past. — Albert Einstein

Assuming you are still lost in thought about when exactly you should forgive someone, well the time is NOW. — Stephen Richards

The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so. — Tammara Webber

There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad. — Laini Taylor

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday. — Chang-rae Lee

Doesn't there come a time when you need to bury the past? When you stop using it as excuse to curl up in a ball and not live your life? — Marilyn Grey

In the past, people said I wasn't focused and didn't give it the time. That's a bunch of crap. I'm not doing anything different now than I did before. — Buddy Rice

The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

True wizards are not bound by (time); we live in the past, present and future all at once. — Deepak Chopra

But the past has a way of taking you to the right place at the wrong time, and that can be a storm inside. — Gregory David Roberts

Don't you be thinking,' she says, 'on things that are done and can't be changed. All right, dear girl? You think of the time to come. — Sarah Waters

You fall flat on your face, and it's not the first time you've done it, Never let your past press you down. — Auliq Ice

Man often thinks of either his past or his future and in the mean time today passes like a fast train, disappearing forever on the horizon of life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine. — Douglas Coupland

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. — Victor Hugo

We change with time by how we view the future and reflect the past — Ronnie Cornelisz

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future. — Peter Benchley

It is past time for the U.S. government to fully fulfill our moral obligation to those who have fought for freedom and democracy. — Tim Ryan

Only the present exists. The past is gone, and the future has not yet happened. There is only ever time present. — Fennel Hudson

The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them. — Louis XIV

Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last. — Abraham Cowley

I never really acted full-time. I certainly had gotten past the point where fame and fortune was something that I was dreaming about or anticipating. — Allison Tolman

The only time is Now. All other times - past, present, and parallel - can be accessed in this moment of Now, and may be changed for the better. — Robert Moss

The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door. — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Have you ever felt you were born in the wrong decade, or came just a bit too late and missed out on all the good stuff when it was in its heyday? — E.A. Bucchianeri

Oh yes," said Nanny Piggins. "I can regale people with anecdotes from my sordid past and think at the same time. — R.A. Spratt

It is time to recognize the past and ongoing genocides to prevent new ones. Together we can build a better world! — Widad Akreyi

I want to do something very important. Like fly into the past and make it come out right. — Marge Piercy

Each time you allow the past to hold your future, [he] steals more and more from you. — Pepper D. Basham

One time he (Cool Papa Bell) hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit his ass sliding into second. — Satchel Paige

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it. — Hilary Mantel

She was my past, my present, my everything, and when the time came I'd make her my forever. — Angela McPherson

How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear. — Marcus Aurelius

The light of long ago is different from the light of today, and yet here, in this house, I'm reminded of the past at every turn. — Donna Tartt

It was half past six and the hands were quietly moving forwards. — Franz Kafka

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping. — Don DeLillo

Tolerance of dissent is the hallmark of a mature party, and it is well past time for the Republican Party to grow up. — John McCain

This is how I think of time: the past is Before, and the present is the After. Before was reality; the After, a nightmare. — Demitria Lunetta

My mind has a time machine; it can travel back to the past when I close my eyes and in my dreams it travels to the future. — Munia Khan

'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past. — Kip Thorne

Comics know that time plus pain equals humor and that we can redeem even awful moments from the past by translating them into a shared experience. — Gina Barreca

The time had come- indeed it was past due- when I had to disavow and dissociate myself from those who in the name of peace burn, maim, and kill. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past. — Alan Lightman

But the streets still revealed, along with the progress and future greatness, some remnants of the recent past, of the time of bandits and bloodshed. — Jorge Amado

Everybody needs a place they can go to rest, sheltered from the past and the future. A place you can live one moment at a time. — Carol Orsborn

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act
act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time
maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right. — Leslie T. Chang

The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable. — Thomas Carlyle

There's not a day that goes by, without me thinking of you, dying, in someone else's arms. — Anthony Liccione

For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment. — Eckhart Tolle

It is not a first time in history that we have got people who have sold out and subverted the ideas for which they stood for in the past. — Auliq Ice

Put the past behind you and the future ahead where they belong and spend your time in the present with the rest of us. — Terry Brooks

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity. — Paulo Coelho

Forget the past and live in the present hour. Now is the time to work, the time to fill The soul with noblest thoughts, the time to will. — Sarah Knowles Bolton

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now. — Eugene O'Neill

The day history will die and lose its essence with time, memories will not only die, but they shall also surely be forgotten with time! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Feel like the bright past is coming through the gray present and I want to look at it one more time. — Mary Gaitskill

I learned from my past, and I now employ those lessons going forward, looking to the future - don't you think it's about time our government did, too? — Ian Somerhalder