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Letter "P" » Past
«Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.»
Author: Eve Glicksman
| About:
Kissing,
Love,
Lovers,
Past
| Keywords:
ancient, believed, breath, breaths, carried, in the same breath, kiss, literally, lovers, out of breath, souls, spirit, take a breath, The Spirit, unite, uniting
«By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry»
«Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.»
Author: Paul Boese
| About:
Forgiveness,
Past
| Keywords:
enlarge, enlarging, forgiveness, future, past, The future, to enlarge
«Fear not for the future, weep not for the past»
«A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Death and dying,
Past,
Time
| Keywords:
rejects, remembered, satisfactions, tolerates
«Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title»
«Consider the past and you shall know the future.»
«As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Misery,
Past
| Keywords:
accomplishments, almost all, apparent, deprives, enjoyment, fourth, renders, Second Thoughts, the matter, withdraws
«For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Future,
Past
| Keywords:
experiment, majority, regret
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