Alan Lightman Quotes, Past Quotes, Order Quotes

Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order. The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.

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Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Eye Quotes , Past Quotes

Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Power Quotes , Past Quotes

time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Time Quotes , Past Quotes

A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years, to join the refrain; But in my soul I plainly heard. Murmuring out of its myriad leaves, Down from its lofty top, rising two hundred feet high, Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs - out of its foot-thick bark, That chant of the seasons and time - chant, not of the past only, but of the future.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Past Quotes , Years Quotes

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

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The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Stupid Quotes , Past Quotes

Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Past Quotes , Dust Quotes

Have not all past human beings parted, And must not all the present, one day part?

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Past Quotes , One Day Quotes

Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Past Quotes

If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.

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When the time for decision arrives, the time for preparation is past.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Past Quotes , Decision Quotes

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Past Quotes , Diving Deep Quotes

Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer.

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The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Time Quotes , Past Quotes

Pain - has an Element of Blank It cannot recollect When it begun - or if there were a time when it was not - It has no Future - but itself - Its Infinite contain Its Past - enlightened to perceive New Periods - of Pain.

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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

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We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Past Quotes , Mindfulness Quotes

If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Past Quotes , Games Quotes

The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Learning Quotes , Past Quotes