A Quote by Irvin D. Yalom

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.

Irvin D. Yalom

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Irvin D. Yalom
American - Psychologist
Born: June 13, 1931

Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.

Greg Iles

Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen there before. She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she had love him despite all their doubts, and she felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do everything right that they had done badly in the past. But she had to give in to the intransigence of death. (Love in the Time of Cholera)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Sometimes in order to be happy in the present moment you have to be willing to give up all hope for a better past.

Robert Holden

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

Anne Lamott

I graduated college in 1992 and didn't reach a sizable audience with my column for nine solid years. If I had started ten years later, or ten years sooner, everything could have happened sooner, obviously. But if I had started fifteen years later? I don't know.

Bill Simmons

You owe dough? You ain't give up that cheese? Hey... Sooner or later, you'll Pay, Pal (no eBay).

Joell Ortiz

Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.

Alexander Haig

Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past reason hated

William Shakespeare

Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.

Whitey Ford

A woman who is very secure in herself, what she's about, what she wants to do, who probably figures that she's a prize catch-sooner or later he's going to come around.

Spike Lee

Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.

Rajneesh

If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.

Alma Gluck

Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.

Dan Brown

If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping start on the ladder upward.