Past Quotes

That's my sole purpose in life is to sit here today and tell you that you can do this, in any life. You can do this in one of your past lives, in a future life, or right now. I prefer now.

Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can affect us. We live in the relative world of time and space.

All the past has done is generated the you that you are now. Dwelling on the past isn't going to change anything.

You remember, you are drawn back to the pathway to enlightenment, to meditation, and when you begin to meditate your past life knowledge returns to you.

The Akashic Records are the impressions from all of our past lives that are available within our causal body.

All the records of your past lives are contained within your own mind, just as the records of your ancestors are contained within your DNA.

The samsara is the sense of self. I've had past experiences. I'm aware of the moment. I will have future experiences.

The karma of immediate availability is the condition of your awareness field. The karma of potentiality is what is stored inside you from your past lives.

For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.

I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.

When you visualize the recent past, do you see it as being somewhere over on the left?

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past.

I never thought I would be in a comedic role; my past is in drama.

The past has been given to us. The future must be built, as others have built our past.

Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it then the picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.

Use your past successes as a trampoline, not an easy chair.

You see, I have no real complaints of how you've left your past behind I guess what gets me worried is you've erased him from your mind.

It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past

If your doctor has warned you to avoid excitement, do not turn to exploring your past lives as a soothing and sedentary occupation.

I wouldn't change my past for anything, because I think it's made me who I am. I'm so enormously grateful for all that I have in my life.

I wanna be a president for everyone in America. That's my goal, this what I will do, that's what I've done in my past.

Every day grows more amnesiac about its recent past.

Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.

For what are we but our past? If that is lost, we become nothing.

With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.

without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my past was my life.

Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change.

Ironically, this physically weak feeling signifies that I'm actually getting stronger. I know from my past that I will ultimately feel strong if I just sit with the feeling and experience it.

My past is no secret to anyone. I'm a blackguard and a sinner, and everyone knows it. These days, that's almost an asset to being a politician.

You take something from your past that you're somewhat ashamed about and you write about it from another character's point of view.

How long do we live in the fictions of our past? And how do we convince anyone that who we write is not necessarily who we are?

Use your past as one of your mentors.

There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.

Your past determines your future unless you’re clearly moving past your self and responding to what you know in your heart.

What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.

I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.

I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.

Anyone from my past I'm interested in, I've already stalked their homes. I like to go outside.

You can get over a broken past if you decide to believe that there's nothing in your past that can keep you from having a great future.

A lot of my past is gone from my mind.

No use dwelling on the past. What you do tomorrow and the next day and the day after that is what matters.

My past was a private obstacle, not a public excuse.

I realized that there are just certain things in life that are private. I have things in my past - like everyone - that I'm not proud of.

You don't have to forget the past to start enjoying the present.

Don't resurrect relationships with negative people off of good memories. You will only remind yourself why they became your past in the first place.

For our past can be a prison we are locked in permanently, or it can be the key to our freedom if we glean the lessons from it and deal with it directly.

Whenever I've speculated in the past relationships, they have never turned out the way I've expected them to.

It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.