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Mon 25 Jun 2018

Don’t answer

Posted by PJ under letting go, quote of the day, the past
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Random quote of the day:

“When your past calls, don’t answer; it has nothing new to say.”

—Deb Sofield, blog, September 10, 2016

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Wed 12 Jul 2017

Vantage

Posted by PJ under history, perspective, quote of the day, the past
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Random quote of the day:

“The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.”

—G. K. Chesterton, “On St. George Revivified,” All I Survey

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Fri 7 Jul 2017

Forgotten

Posted by PJ under forgetting, quote of the day, the past
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Random quote of the day:

“A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.”

—David McCullough, speech, January 2016, Retail Industry Leaders Association Leadership Forum

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Wed 5 Jul 2017

The past

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Random quote of the day:

“The past is always a rebuke to the present…It’s a better rebuke because you can see what some of the costs were, what frail virtues were achieved in the past by frail men….The drama of the past that corrects us is the drama of our struggles to be human, or our struggles to define the values of our forebears in the face of their difficulties.

—Robert Penn Warren, Conversations with Robert Penn Warren, ed. Gloria L. Cronin, Ben Siegel

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Tue 11 Apr 2017

Forgiveness

Posted by PJ under forgiveness, quote of the day, the past
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Random quote of the day:

“Forgiveness is giving up all hope for a better past.”

—Corinne Edwards, Love Waits on Welcome (edited from Jerry Jampolsky)

 

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Fri 16 Dec 2016

Misplaced

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Random quote of the day:

“The past is never where you think you left it…”

—Katherine Anne Porter, Ship of Fools

 

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Wed 14 Dec 2016

Present and past tense

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Random quote of the day:

“The Present is the living sum total of the whole Past.”

—Thomas Carlyle, “Characteristics,” Essays

 

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Fri 7 Oct 2016

Longing

Posted by PJ under future, longing, quote of the day, the past
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Random quote of the day:

“What is it in us that lives in the past and longs for the future, or lives in the future and longs for the past?”

—Mark Strand, “No Words Can Describe It”

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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Tue 12 Apr 2016

Forgetting

Posted by PJ under forgetting, quote of the day, the past
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Random quote of the day:

“If you forget your past, you die.”

—Carlos Fuentes, interview, The Paris Review, Winter 1981, No. 82

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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Fri 21 Aug 2015

Time storm

Posted by PJ under moving, quote of the day, the past, time
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Random quote of the day:

“The storm pushing against me was time, ceaselessly flowing into the past, which just as ceaselessly dogs our heels. It exerts a mighty suction which greedily draws everything living into itself; we can only escape from it—for a while—by pressing forward.”

—Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

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