Past Quotes
Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.
You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return...
For progressive people the present is the beginning of the future. For conservative people the present is the end of the past.
We have lived through fear all our lives, and when you have gone through a whole lot of fear, sometimes all you can do is resist the fear, and resistance comes in the form of courage.
God is more powerful than anybody's past, no matter how wretched. He can make us forget - not by erasing the memory but by taking the sting and paralyzing effect out of it
Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
If the house is to be set in the order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
You can't pick when you're touched. You can't pick the time. It just is. It's the reality. What it is, is. I can't change the past. I can only deal with the present and the future.
Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.
I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.
The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.
The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.
You do not move ahead by constantly looking in a rear view mirror. The past is a rudder to guide you, not an anchor to drag you. We must learn from the past but not live in the past.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.
Shah Rukh is not my girlfriend that I should remember him. When I don't remember my past girlfriends, what will I remember Shah Rukh for?
It is interesting sometimes to stop and think and wonder what the place you are currently at used to be like in times past, who walked there, who worked there and what the walls have seen.
It’s great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today.
We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.
The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
We are all prisoners of our past. It is hard to think of things except in the way we have always thought of them. But that solves no problems and seldom changes anything.
Being Doctor Who, I used to look at the clock and know at half past four we were going to stop rehearsing - and that was a sad moment for me because I wanted to stay in this beautiful, unreal world.
Ronaldo has come through for the past two or three years and is the best in Europe. I think at the moment no doubt Ronaldo is the best player.
The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.
Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.
We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present
It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.
If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
