Lmst

A quotation from Victor Hugo

But those who do not welcome the future should consider this: in denying progress it is not the future that they condemn, but themselves. They are inoculating themselves with a fatal disease, the past. There is only one way of denying tomorrow, and that is to die.

[Mais que ceux qui ne veulent pas de l’avenir y réfléchissent. En disant non au progrès, ce n’est point l’avenir qu’ils condamnent, c’est eux—mêmes. Ils se donnent une maladie sombre; ils s’inoculent le passé. Il n’y a qu’une manière de refuser Demain, c’est de mourir.]

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Les Misérables, Part 4 “St. Denis,” Book 7 “Argot,” ch. 4 (4.7.4) (1862) [tr. Denny (1976)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/hugo-victor/76503/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #LesMiserables #change #death #future #past #progress

Victor Hugo: "There is only one way of denying tomorrow, and that is to die."

Colorado Rockies news: The Rockies are repeating mistakes of the past with Adael Amador https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/3264/ #adael #amador #are #Baseball #colorado #FrontPage #mistakes #MLB #news #OF #past #purple #repeating #rockies #RockiesNewsNotesLinks #row #the #with

Energy Emerges from Nothing - Alan Watts

#present #energy #past #fyp #explore

The past wasn't always better. Let's take for example wars, they can hardly be considered as "the good old times".

It's a shame we still cannot exist without them. That we just learn about many wars from the past, read about them, see the movies or series and leave them be in the past, in history.

#past #wars

A quotation from Byron

I stood in Venice, on the “Bridge of Sighs”;
   A Palace and a prison on each hand:
   I saw from out the wave her structures rise
   As from the stroke of the Enchanter’s wand:
   A thousand Years their cloudy wings expand
   Around me, and a dying Glory smiles
   O’er the far times, when many a subject land
   Looked to the wingéd Lion’s marble piles,
Where Venice sat in state, throned on her hundred isles!

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 4, st. 1 (1818)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/byron/76357/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #byron #glory #history #past #Venice

Imagine your computer remembering everything you’ve ever done, every site, every document, every app. 👀
That’s Microsoft’s new “#recall feature in Windows 11: an #ai tool that constantly takes #screenshots and stores them locally, letting you search your #past activity like a #photographic #memory.
#microsoft promises strong encryption, user controls to exclude sensitive apps or sites, and says the data stays on your device, unless you choose to back it up. Do you think they "really" will?

#Remorse Is Holding You Back

https://www.buddhistdoor.net/features/remorse-is-holding-you-back/

#Regret often stems from a desire to escape future punishment or #negative consequences. It is rooted in #selfpreservation; an instinctive reaction to the fear of #repercussions that might arise from our #past actions. Remorse centers on acknowledging the hurtful impact that our actions may have had on others. It is a more profound, empathetic response that arises from a place of compassion and understanding.

April 2025
# 72

THE RETURN
dir Uberto Pasolini, 2024

Classical PTSD.

#drama #tragedy #antiquity #odyssey #Homer #Ulysses #Ithaca #war #revenge #politics #widow #past

#Me and my #littlebrother in the #past #sixties #garden and #holiday

Twelve Poles, Bunchrew House, Beauly Firth, Scotland. April 2006. Ref-956
https://www.denisolivier.com/photography/twelve-poles-bunchrew-house-beauly-firth-scotland/en/956
#scotland #hoya #denisolivierphotographer #canoneos #denisolivierphotography #denisolivier #past #clouds #contemplation #time #blackandwhite #dslr #canon5d #denisolivierphoto #poles

35 #HistoricalSnapshots that define our understanding of #PastEvents https://zorz.it/wxarI | #ShanilouPerera #historical #VintagePhotographs #HistoricalPhotos #history #OldPhotos #past #RarePhotos #CollectionOfPhotos

Past-tense clarity —
The soundtrack
Of you and me
Turned out to be
All broken hearted.

April 17th, 2025
#vsspoem prompt: #Past-tense

Share. Boost. Ffwd

#poetrycommunity
#poetry #prompt
#AmWriting #WordedArt

I wonder where do the opinions that times were better in the past are coming from? What makes us think that past is better and the present sucks? Is it some kind of a selective memory? Is it because we were younger and full of hope? Or is it true? But I think every generation says these things, so is the world getting worse? Or people are just getting older and bitter?

#memory #past #present #personal_worldview

A quotation from Will Rogers