A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.......

The past is not a package one can lay away.....

 Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird. .....

The past is strapped to our backs.  We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.....

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.....

The one charm of the past is that it is the past.....

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....

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.....

Look not at the days gone by with a forlorn heart.  They were simply the dots we can now connect with our present, to help us draw the outline of a beautiful tomorrow.....

The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings....

I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are....

Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.....

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.....

God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.....

We need not destroy the past.  It is gone......

What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment.  And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new.  Right now...

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.....

 



Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead. ....

Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off. ....

Beware the fury of a patient man....

Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. .....

You can learn many things from children.  How much patience you have, for instance.....

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. ....

Adopt the pace of nature:  her secret is patience.....

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish....

Patience is the companion of wisdom.....

Patience is also a form of action.....

One moment of patience may ward off great disaster.  One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life....

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience.  Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.....

Who is wise?  He that learns from everyone.  Who is powerful?  He that governs his passions.  Who is rich?  He that is content.  Who is that?  Nobody......

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.....

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. ....

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease.  The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.....

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world......

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire......

I don't know that there are haunted houses.  I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people....

Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.....

If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.....

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it....