Past Quotes

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.

Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.

What I've done in the past is history and what I'm gonna do in the future is a mystery

What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.

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

The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened ten or twenty years ago, and yet most of the time it's got no reality, it's just a set of facts that you've learned, like a lot of stuff in a history book. Then some chance sight or sound or smell, especially smell, sets you going, and the past doesn't merely come back to you, you're actually IN the past. It was like that at this moment.

The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.

I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.

Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.

There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

You aren't your past, you are probability of your future.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

If you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are, then you never grow.

Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence.

We are all affected by five things. But the most important thing that affects us is our dreams--our ability to see the future. But here's why we don't reach into the future. We're trapped either by regret of the past or the routine of the present. So make sure that the greatest pull on you is the pull of the future.

Don't look back unless it's a good view.

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

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you will look forward, do so prayerfully. But the wisest course would be to be present in the present gratefully.

I am an acme of things accomplished, and I an encloser of things to be.

Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.

Don't regret what's happened.If it's in the past, LET IT GO.Don't even remember it!

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.

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.

The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.

Don't worry about yesterday it ended last night at midnight.

It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.

We have seen better days.

I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.

For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

There's nothing you can do about the past. But, you can do a great deal about your future. You don't have to be the same person you were yesterday. You can make changes in your life -- absolutely startling changes in a fairly short time. You can make changes you can't even conceive of now, if you give yourself a chance.

Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience. To enveigh against things that are past and irremediable, is unpleasing; but to steer clear of the shelves and rocks we have struck upon, is the part of wisdom, equally as incumbent on political as other men, who have their own little bark, or that of others, to navigate through the intricate paths of life, or the trackless ocean, to the haven of security and rest.

Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler.

Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.

I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.

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

Like speaks to like only; labor to labor, philosophy to philosophy, criticism to criticism, poetry to poetry. Literature speaks how much still to the past, how little to the future, how much to the East, how little to the West.

The past is over... forget it. The future holds hope... reach for it.

If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.

The world was fair, the mountains tall In Elder Days before the fall.

Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past.

The past is your LESSON. The present is your GIFT. The future is your MOTIVATION.

In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.

Our past experiences may have made us the way we are, but we don't have to stay that way.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

For the rest of my life there are two days that will never again trouble me. The first day is yesterday with all its blunders and tears, follies and defeats. Yesterday has passed away, beyond my control forever. The other day is tomorrow with all its pitfalls and threats, its dangers and mystery. Until the sun rises again I have no stake in tomorrow, for it is still unborn.

You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.

A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.

You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.

The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does