Past Quotes

During the past five years, I've learned that time flies faster than you think, and because you only live once you have to learn from your mistakes, live your dreams and be accountable.

View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. View it as your friend, and it will give you wings.

I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.

The only living life is in the past and future - the present is an interlude - strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.

I remember the past, and I learn from it. I rejoice and celebrate in the present, and I re-imagine the future. Now is the moment that never ends.

It's past time the feds scrapped the Canada Health Act.

I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future.

The past cannot be cured.

I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a shower this morning, didn't you? Because you smell lovely.'

Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future.

The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.

In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.

The past does not define, you the present does.

Come back and wake me up.....half past May! (the Toad)

A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.

You are not free until your past has no effect on your future

One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past.

You can't change the past so don't let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you've got to want to.

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

Small teams driven by their passion with a clear focus can do extraordinary things. Things that only large corporations and governments could do in the past.

The past lies like a nightmare upon the present.

What is last year's snow to me, Last year's anything? The tree Budding yearly must forget How its past arose or set

Our God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home.

Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.

When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need it anymore. Presence is the key. Now is the key.

Turquoise, yellow, pink, a lot of the pastel colors are some of the more popular suit colors this year. But it varies from old to young.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

If you live like it’s the past and you behave like it’s the past, then guys from the future find it very hard to see you.

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Nothing in the past is as powerful as what we choose to do in the present moment.

I never look back, I look forward.

I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.

When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.