Past Quotes

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.

The circle is a reminder that each moment is not just the present, but is inclusive of our gratitude to the past and our responsibility to the future.

Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past

The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

To look back into the past only makes sense if it serves the future.

Be not the slave of your own past.

There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

I know you left me once, but I came right back to find you. Even though I like being in your past, you got a bright future behind you.

Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.

Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.

You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

Graystripe pushed past Tigerheart and Whitestorm and crouched beside his old friend. "I would have taken your place if you had let me". His voice was hoarse with grief.

If we do not honor our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow.

We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history.

The US is indeed a terrorist nation. ...It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.

Regardless of your past, your tomorrow is a clean slate.

What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team.

It is a great feeling to know that from a window I can go to books to cans of beer to past loves. And from these gather enough dream to sneak out a back door.

Although we are aware that North Korea is attaching importance to the liquidation of the past, that is difficult unless there is progress over the abduction issue.

Your trials did not come to punish you, but to awaken you - to make you realise that you are a part of Spirit and that just behind the sparks of your life is the Flame of Infinity.

Going by my past journey, I am not certain where life will take me, what turns and twists will happen; nobody knows where they will end up. As life changes direction, I'll flow with it.

It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed.

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.

You could give me the past,“ he said a little sadly. “But Alec is my future.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

This world is changing enormously. In any position in a company you need to work very hard on learning new skills every day, but you also need to unlearn some of the old skills from the past.

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

This one time I stayed up way past my bedtime... man that was scary.

The complete teachings of all Buddhas - past, present, and future - are to be found within the essence of every human being.

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

Love alone allows man to forget himself... it alone can still redeem even the darkest hours of the past since it alone finds the courage to believe in the mercy of the holy God.

Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.

I had to learn to forgive myself, not to judge, but to learn from the past. They showed me how vital it is to accept, be truthful, and love myself. So I could do the same with others.

I try to incorporate faith every day, to not remind myself of past failures, to learn how to forgive and to trust the future.