Past Quotes

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

My past is everything I failed to be.

For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.

I would go back to the past and watch one of the early Beatles shows, because they were such a massive part of cultural history. As a younger person, you feel you missed out on that.

Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind.

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Do not take hold of a past that no longer serves you, but embrace the stillness that is right now.

The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time, something that distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

Fashion is a mirror of the era in which we live. Why should the magazine be disconnected from reality? It's not like in the past.

Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence.

Future is everything that past has forgotten.

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

You cannot rectify grievances from the past with today's charity.

The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.

If you are in front of a wall that you cannot get past, would you just keep banging your head into the wall?... No, you would find a new wall.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

You change the past when you change the way you see it.

The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.

Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.

The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.

Do not worry about the past or the future. This moment needs your attention, for this is where your life exists.

Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come.

Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our human actions, opens up the world to the miracle of infinite possibility.

We can take from the past its fires, and not its ashes.

The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead... The past lies in flames.

Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.

The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.

It doesn't matter what you've done in the past - what matters are the choices you make right now. God gives you the chance to start over with every breath.

Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at the root of every single one of those issues was insecurity, something I had battled since childhood.

Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop you; this is how comfortable your path shall be.

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

All art of the past must be destroyed.

The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future.

The past is gone. The future never arrives. In truth, there is no life outside of this moment!

The future will soon be a thing of the past.

The past was so past it hurt.

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.