Quotes About Past

Masa lalu tak perlu jadi beban, bila tak sudi jadi pembantu.

Ya, alangkah indah masa kecil yang lalu. Dan kini aku menembangkan keindahan dalam kenang-kenangan.

Keindahannya ada dalam kenang-kenangan.

On ne peut pas arrêter l'aspiration pacifique et patiente d'un peuple qui souhaite répondre aux questions criantes d'un passé douloureux.

Qu'elles soient fabriquées ou réelles, les questions du présent ne doivent jamais nous faire oublier les silences du passé.

Decision makers should realize that their primary key lies in making decisions without any undue weight in the past, and with expectations about the future that are as accurate as possible.

l'oubli dont je commençais à sentir la force et qui est un si puissant instrument d'adaptation à la réalité parce qu'il détruit peu à peu le passé survivant qui est en constante contradiction avec elle.

Danger past, God forgotten.

He who has left a rogue behind him, has made a good day's journey.

Teach him what has been said in the past; then he will set a good example to the children of the magistrates, and judgment and all exactitude shall enter into him. Speak to him, for there is none born wise.

Choices that we make everyday shapes our future. Everyday you have the power to change your future by doing right choice, by staying true to yourself. You have that choice to decide your goals in life. You have that choice to do actions which make closer to your goals in life. You have the choice to dream about your future and work towards it. You have the choice to not let your past define you. Everyday you have these choices."

Our mind has this incredible talent of creating sob stories out of past. Instead of dwelling on those sob stories of past, we should train our mind to be joyful in this present moment. Life is happening right now in this present moment!

There is not even a thought, or an invention, which is not common property, born of the past and the present

Mientras pensamos en el presente, se está convirtiendo en pasado.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

childhood memories. But now, in 1822, his artistic horizons

Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.

I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the pearl of great price, the one field that had treasure in it. I realize now that I must give all that I have to possess it. Life is not hurrying on to a receeding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you.

We, like most humans, consider history a lesson on a blackboard that can be sponged off.

I told her I was not sure I could bear living with memories, she said, Look up at the stars, look, they are not there, what you see is the memory of what once was, once upon a time.

The emptiness left by easy joys, untasted, is ever growing in my life. And the day may come when I shall feel that, could I but have the past back, I would strive no more after the unattainable, but drain to the full these little, unsought, everyday joys which life offers.

I said that I lived in London, having very recently moved from the house in the countryside where I had lived alone with my children for the past three years, and where for the seven years before that we had lived together with their father. It had been, in other words, our family home, and I had stayed to watch it become the grave of something I could no longer definitively call either a reality or an illusion.

É como passar em frente a uma casa onde se morou: o fato de ela ainda existir, tão concreta, faz tudo o que aconteceu desde então parecer de algum modo imaterial.

A thousand regrets I've had in love, A thousand times I've longed to change the past. I know, my love, there is no going back. No undoing of our thousand burdens. We must go on despite our heavy hearts. A thousand regrets I've had in love, but I shall never regret you.