Quotes About Past

It was not the past that broke you. - It was the empty future, the endless string of days filled with none of the people who mattered most.

I know you have a past, but personally, I'm vested in our future.

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.

The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.

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

The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.

Spiritual progress is when on becomes free not only of the knowledge which is inevitably from the past, but also from the need to know... and a desire to predict and control.

Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?

If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past.

The past is dead; The future is imaginary; Happiness can only be in the Eternal Now Moment.

Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need to release the past and rise above fear, doubt or resignation.

As they say in sports, the older you get, the better you used to be.

Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.

The sun has been there for 500, 600 years.

Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.

But the Earth holds ghosts, even of entire nations.

Siamo sempre inclini a dimenticare ciò che abbiamo detto o fatto nel passato, anche per non avere il tremendo obbligo di rimanervi fedeli. Mi pare che altrimenti tutti dovremmo scoprirci pieni di errori, e, soprattutto, di contraddizioni, tra quello che ci siamo proposti di fare e quello che abbiamo fatto, tra quello che avremmo desiderato di essere e quello che ci siamo accontentati di essere in realtà. [Quaderno proibito]

Belajarlah dari masa lalu, hiduplah untuk masa depan. Yang terpenting adalah tidak berhenti bertanya.

That is why the study of history is so important. History is not destiny; it describes the past but does not decide the future. Yet it is a constant reminder of tragedies...and a warning against repeating them. Human beings can learn from experience. And therein lies hope.