Past Quotes

Owning our past allows us to own our future.

While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.

When you're in political times, you want to reflect those political times, and sometimes going back to our past is the best way to look at our present.

I am 46, and have been for some time past.

You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.

Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?

We owe it to our past futile sacrifices to continue making further futile sacrifices.

There were things in my past which I have not liked. But all the things of which I was proud will remain.

Your past wouldn’t frighten me,” I said, buckling my seat belt across my lap. “I’m guessing I’d be more appalled than anything.

Based on past experience, I hope not.

some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.

I have always lived according to my conscience, and my past is clean.

The key to changing our past, present, and future is to create our piece of the PIE (our Perceptions, Interpretations, & Expectations) on purpose.

When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.

I feel completely free to do whatever I want and how I want to do it. I feel unburdened by my past.

There's the life you live and the life you leave behind. but what you share with someone else - especially someone you love - that's not just how you bury your past. It's how you write you future.

I hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options, Seth muttered. Then you've started down the road to wisdom, Grandpa replied.

I am wandering inside, wandering through my past, trying to see if there is a place there strong enough to hold me.

I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that I don't have much to say.

I found my way to make my peace with the recent past by turning it into WORD.

I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal.

There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past.

A psychic once read my palm and told me I was my mother's mother in a past life. Isn't that weird?

[Paper Girls] is very much is about how we are thinking about our past and growing up.

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Unless we improve our ability to provide a quality education for underprivileged kids, we're not going to really overcome in a massive way our past.

The more my fans know about my past, the more they'll be able to predict and understand some of the moves I make in the future.

I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.

I spend so much time like living in the past or the future. I mean, I think most people do, really. And the moments when you're really present in your life can be pretty rare, really.

As you continue the work of acknowledging and claiming the gifts of your past and standing in the power of your present, you are freeing up enormous reserves of creative energy.

Remember the past - and await the future.

We are programmed by our past beliefs, which we inherited from our parents, our cultural traditions sometimes, and our social conditioning.

We either allow our past to keep interfering with our optimal expression of love and happiness, or we can move beyond our past with renewed passion for life

Bliss cannot be found by remembering the past or anticipating the future.

In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is the fertile ground of creativity and freedom.

There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.

The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it.

As authentic as it is riveting and ultimately unforgettable. Your past will find you-and it can change your life. I think it's the most soulful book Patti Callahan has ever written.

Time past cannot be stopped, saved, or regained. But a photograph allows you to borrow it.

You must put fear out of your mind. Confront it with the belief that the past is over with, that a new life lies ahead.

'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.

Judaism had absolutely nothing to do with my past marriage to Mike [Todd] or my upcoming marriage to Eddie Fisher, both of whom were Jewish. It was something I had wanted to do for a long time.

Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.

While you are going through your trial, you can recall your past victories and coul the blessings that you do have with a sure hope of greater ones to allow if you are faithful.

Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.

I am fascinated with times past.

I don't care too much for thinking about the past. The truth is just another story. You can remember it any way you want; it's never gonna be the same twice.

I'm trying to listen to my past, listen to what's most deeply going on inside myself, my creative set of fictional characters, a fictional world - to listen to that world, to search.

Past life knowledge is not the wedding album of existence. Past life remembrance in Buddhism is the ability to bring a greater awareness we had in another life into this life.

During those years the past life recollections began. Psychic powers developed, my meditation increased and I found myself changing, over and over again, becoming someone new almost every day.