Past Quotes

I can see that now. I can see everything once it’s already happened — I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand.

Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.

Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past.

We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.

Without a past you can't have a future.

The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future.

Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.

When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.

The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.

The truth which can be actualized after Self Realization is that you are not this body, this mind, this conditioning from the past, this ego, these emotions, but that you are the pure spirit.

In the New Year, you carry all the experiences of the past years and that is the greatest power of every New Year! This year again, you are less student and more master!

I just don't see the point in beating myself up. I think it's more productive to concentrate on being a better person right now than punishing myself for who I was in the past.

I walked past Noel Gallagher on the street once and everyone was like, "Go speak to him! He's one of your heroes!" I thought I'd leave him. I don't know what I'd say to him.

Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.

I love the old movies from my past, when I was growing up. I just have a special place in my heart for them. They kind of feel like comfort food to me, so watching them is just cozy and warm.

I go to my past in order to discern the future.

We put labels on people and fight wars over them. If we truly want harmony, we have to get past the labels.

The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.

Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.

In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.

Learn from the past and share your experiences with others.

All of my past challenges have helped me become who I am today.

Fighting the wounds of the past will only deepen those wounds. Relaxation is the method that heals the wounds of the mind, not reaction.

Though it were proved that there was never an Aryan race in the past, yet we desire that in the future there may be one. This is the decisive standpoint for men of action.

Night falls fast. Today is the past.

Through Self-realization man becomes aware of true values as to his place in the divine plan and his relation to the past, present, and future of mankind.

Whenever I go past McDonalds I get very, very angry.

Put the past behind you, the present moment is all that matters, in the life of those who want to be happy.

Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth.... Your every past action and thought have made you what you are.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, good liberals both, pursued power by offering their candidacies as opportunities for Americans to document their innocence of the nation's past.

Nothing's ever entirely new. It's more a matter of what gets picked up from the past at each time.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.

The Great Morning which is for all, rises in the East.

The past is another land, and we cannot go to visit. So, if I say there were dragons, and men who rode upon their backs, who alive has been there and can tell me that I'm wrong?

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

Why do we remember the past, but not the future?

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

We've seen many Black men lose their life over the past couple of years. Not only just heard about it.

You are treating yourself in present time much as you were treated by others in the past. And you punish yourself far more than anyone would ever punish you.

We Virginians do not go to the storied shrines of the past to do worship but rather to gain inspiration.

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.

What I can say is I think [Miley Cyrus] a fantastic artist. She's got a fantastic voice. I made a comment in the past that I really regret making because I never like being mean.

In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.