Past Quotes

If you became grateful, right now, for everything that ever happened in your past, how would that impact your view of the future?

Rituals keep us from forgetting what must not be forgotten and keep us rooted in a past from which we must not be disconnected.

Youth, hope, and love: To build a new life on a ruined life, To make the future fairer than the past, And make the past appear a troubled dream.

Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

I passed by the brothel as though past the house of a beloved.

Past failures unlock future successes

I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.

Reality includes both the past and the future, but existence includes only the present and is totally dependent on the reality of past and future universes. Without them there is no existence now.

If America puts the enmity aside, if it initiates good will, and if it compensates for the past, the future situation between the United States and Iran will change.

Meditation is the only magic that can help you to be free from the mind, can help you to be free from yourself, your past and all the burden of the past.

In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband.

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

You must let go of your past and embrace your future and figure out what path you're going to go down

People who stop learning become the owners of the past. People who still continue to study will be the future owners.

I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life.

Your future does not equal your past. Tomorrow is full of possibility you can access right now

Load up your mind with pictures capturing your preferred tomorrow. Put the remembrances of the past in a place where they won't block your view.

Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.

America seems to celebrate its more violent past, but Canada doesn't like to recognize those things. The willingness to accept the existence of violence separates our two countries.

All time exists. That is the truth.... If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind?

Learn from the past and let it go. Live in today.

We focus on bringing back Indigenous languages, ceremonies, cultures, traditions - all that was lost over the past 150 years. This is how we'll generate hope - for all Canadian people.

The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.

To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.

I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past.

Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst.

Hysterical fundamentalism is not the way into the future; it is the last gasp of the past.

how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

Only sick music makes money today.

Forget the past.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.