“You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.”
Karen Blixen (1885–1962) Danish writer
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Fiction writer, poet 1935Related quotes
Anselm Kiefer (1945) German painter and sculptor
Quoted in Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joshua-schwartz/in-the-beginning-there-was-not_b_1703387.html
“Natural heart’s ivy, Patience masks
Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
" Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray http://www.bartleby.com/122/46.html", lines 6-7 <br class="br">Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
“Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.”
Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
No. 1, volume v, p. 286
Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)
“A mind that has confronted ruin for years
Is half or more a ruined mind.”
Wendell Berry (1934) author
Given (2005), Sabbaths 2001
“Cat, you ruined mom's dress!"
"Honey, it was ruined when she bought it.”
Dr. Seuss book The Cat in the Hat
Source: The Cat in the Hat