Tuesday, December 2, 2008

What is you theory on the Past?

It really does amaze me on how different and yet alike people are. How many theores there are in this world, how many opinions. Well in this note im focusing on "the past". I don't have a strict set theory on the subject. I agree with many views, all at the same time. I mean i believe people should not dwell on the past, yet the past should not be forgotten. I believe that people should not be judged on their past mistakes, but those mistakes should not be forgotten and in some way, be stuck to that person, for other to be aware. I'm a little confused about the whole matter, but i feel i will always be. Does your past make who you are, is it who you are? Would you want to be judged by what you've done, even if you can not change it? Or, do you believe that people are better of forgetting the past, all together? tell me...

Here are some theories:

"The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus,we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so." - Blaise Pascal

"I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now." - Sophia Loren

" I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind og change." - Bob Dylan

" For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experimant." - Mark Twain

" There are two days in the week about which and upon which i never worry..Yesterday and Tomorrow." - Robert Jones Burdette

" The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are." - Oscar Wilde

" People who live in the past generally are affraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There;s no future in it. " - Sparky Anderson

" When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect five off the greatest glow of happiness. " - Bob Hope

" The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess." - Chris Cobbs

" The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it." - Wendell Berry

" For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. " - John F. Kennedy

" Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and furture evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it." - Francios de La Rochefoucauld

" You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on iy. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. " - Johnny Cash

" As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present in variable order of society. " - Henry David Thoreau

" History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. " - John F. Kennedy

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