Eckhart Tolle Quotes

The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation. … Both are illusions.

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• The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.

  

  Carl Levin
  • People
  • American
  • Future

• You can never plan the future by the past.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Future
  • Past
  • Plan

• Africa has no future.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Future
  • Africa

• The problem of different sensitivities of distinct protein groups to lysosomal inhibitors has remained unsolved and may have served as an important trigger in the future quest for a non-lysosomal proteolytic system that may be involved in at least certain aspects of intracellular protein degradation.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Different
  • Important
  • May

• I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Future
  • Think
  • Enthusiasm

• I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Future
  • Day

• A fashion show is like a 10-minute play, but there's all this anticipation; Everyone arriving, finding their seats, then there's 10 minutes of people walking past and clothes and music, then the whole thing is finished.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Music
  • Past

• The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Life
  • Live
  • Past

• I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Tired
  • Promise
  • Need

• I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Past

• I'm really obsessed with the past.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Past
  • Really
  • Obsessed

• We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Important
  • Why
  • Future

• I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Up
  • Poetry
  • Rain

• I don't like the road. I love being on the track. I like being indoors and the fact I'm not battling past 200 other riders.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Love
  • Past
  • Road

• I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Recognising that the future growth of India will depend on greater skill development, the National Policy for Skill Development aims to create a skilled workforce of 500 million by 2022.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Future
  • Growth
  • India

• I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Future
  • Feeling
  • Kind

• So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Future
  • Party
  • Optimistic

• In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Taken
  • Child

• Saying and doing are two things.

  

  Matthew Henry

• Most people wouldn't guess, but I'm really into painting: acrylics and sometimes oils.

  

  Chris Zylka
  • People
  • Painting

• In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • Write
  • I Can

• Theatre is immediate gratification.

  

  Chita Rivera
  • Theatre

• The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation. … Both are illusions.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Future
  • Past
  • Identity