Past Quotes

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

I bet you never thought the hardest part of finding your ‘saviorʹ would be getting her mom to let her stay out past curfew.

There are certainly loads of players that I admire; I try to learn from all of the great masters both of the past and contemporary as well.

To some extent, stocks are like Rembrandts. They sell based on what they've sold in the past. Bonds are much more rational. No-one thinks a bond's value will soar to the moon.

Jews are living in the past and they can't get over it.

We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up.

Every time a puck gets past me and I look back into the net, I say, 'uh-oh.'

We will not allow the past to drag us down and stop us from moving ahead. We understand where we should move.

All tradition is merely the past.

If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.

In the past, (GM) produced a lot of very excellent vehicles but somehow they didn't excite anybody.

Sometimes God redeems your story by surrounding you with people who need to hear your past so it doesn't become their future.

Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.

Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.

People should learn that you cannot dwell in your past. One who dwells in the past hurts not only himself, but also the people around him.

Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future, but the living experience is what is happening NOW.

She refers to her past as the time before she was "blown away.

A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning - why did your parents pick that particular one?

To me, England is past its sell-by date. It's not the country I grew up in.

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

Don't lean on the past, learn from it and move on.

To move out of the patterns of our past and create the future we want we must pass through the gateway of the present

To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.

Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret?

Forgive and call back the energy wasted on past events.

By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

If you keep picking a scab it will bleed and never heal. If you keep dragging the pain of the past up, it will never heal.

Meditation suffers from a towering PR problem.… If you can get past the cultural baggage, though, what you’ll find is that meditation is simply exercise for your brain.

If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way.

The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed

Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery.

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future...

The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.

I appreciate the mistakes I made in the past cause it is shaping my future.

After that, whenever I drove past Mangakahia, I would empty my ashtray - and I was a heavy smoker in those days - on the road outside the hall.

I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years.

Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them.

God does not want us to be living in the past, in shame, in fear, or in the future, in worry. He wants us to be living in the present, in now, with Him.

We're not aware of changing our minds even when we do change our minds. And most people, after they change their minds, reconstruct their past opinion - they believe they always thought that.

...one of the best things about running is that no matter how fast you've run in the past, running fast in the future does not come easily or with any guarantees.

When you get past making labels for things, it is possible to combine and transform elements into new things. Look at things until their import, identity, name, use, and description have dissolved.

There is a little bit of hubris to want to change the past. It implies that you know better - that things didn't happen the way that they were supposed to.

Every morning we get a chance to be different. A chance to change. A chance to be better. Your past is your past. Leave it there. Get on with the future part, honey.

Things that happen along the way determine the final result. I think the pain and suffering I went through in the past... lead me here today.

I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that's enough.

Krishna once said to Arjuna: Consider the past and future with an equal mind, and pass the peanut M&M's.

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

I turned down a lot of reality shows in the past, but MTV, back in the day, was just the coolest with Cribs to Pimp My Ride.