Past Quotes

Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present.

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.

Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past.

I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.

How can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

Never erase your past. It shapes who you are today and will help you to be the person you'll be tomorrow.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

I've never really had a favorite player, past or present.

Dr. Shapiro is a pioneer in the field of helping people overcome trauma and negative past experiences.

If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined.

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

The only way we can leave the pain or sin from our past is to face it with Christ. For the past cannot be forgotten, it can only be forgiven and redeemed.

I'm pleased the administration is endorsing the need for legislation dealing with the chemical sector. In the past, the administration's position has been ambiguous.

A mind that worries about the past is distracted, and a mind that worries about the future is delusional.

If the past is not resolved, future relationships will suffer. Let your heart heal, before you open the door to another.

We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.

Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past.

The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy.

For you to have real love, you need to be able to move past your self.

The future doesn't exist. It hasn't happened yet. The past doesn't exist. It has already happened.

I can't tell my future, so I'm going to tell my past.

Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.

I have felt the impact of your prayer in these past weeks. I am certain now that nothing has had a more powerful infl uence on this life of mine than your prayers.

Every War in the past 50 Years is a Result of Media Lies

To reclaim our past and insist that it become a part of our human history is the task that lies before us. For the future requires that women, as well as men, shape the world destiny.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.

The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very top and stagnant living standards for the majority.

I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.

We keep ourselves so tied up in regretting the past and fearing the future that we don't have any energy left to figure out who we are and what we want to create right now.

When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

Clothing is . . . an exercise in memory. It makes me explore the past: how did I feel when I wore that. They are like signposts in the search for the past.

Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.

Why does everyone talk about the past? All that counts is tomorrow's game.

Past: Jesus saved us from the penalty of sin. Present: He saves us from the power of sin. Future: He will save us from the presence of sin.

Don't be so bitter about a bad experience from your past that you miss the opportunities in front of you.

I'm very sorry if I offended anybody. I'd like to put it in the past now. What's done is done. I regret it.