“He looked at the silver pocketknife in his hand. An idea came to him – possibly the stupidest, craziest idea he’d had since he thought, Hey, I’ll get Percy to swim in the River Styx! He’ll love me for that!”
“Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.”
“Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.”
“Things without all remedy should be without regard: what s done is done.”
“Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.”
“You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.”
“What was the point of trying to run away if people were going to insist on reminding you of what you were running from?”
“Fuck the past. This was the present.”
“Sometimes in order to be happy in the present moment you have to be willing to give up all hope for a better past.”
“It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on to a brighter world.”
“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”
“The what should be never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no what should be, there is only what is.”
“You can t do anything about the past, it s done and can t be mended. But the future is different, if you just think what you really want and reach out and take it.”
“We use time machines to learn from the past,” Chris continued. “But there are still a few things that have been puzzling some of us, and maybe you can help clear up one of them. There’s a person called Kim Kardashian—someone born in your time, I believe. She has had thousands of regeneration and cybernetic enhancement procedures. But no one can seem to recall her purpose. Does she have any special talent or reason for being kept alive all these centuries?” Heads shook in bafflement. “Anyway,” said Chris, “you’ll be glad to know that Tom Brady is still slinging footballs as far as ever. And Brett Favre is considering another comeback.”
“Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. - Poem XL”
“He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.”
“To dream the future is much more better than to regret the past. But the best of all, to live in the present life with all of your power.”