Quotes About Past

I think if God came down and gave us His version of Empathy then all the world's problems would surely become a thing of the past.

The third and final type of problem with commonsense reasoning is that we learn less from history than we think we do, and that this misperception in turn skews our perception of the future.

The memories seem like snapshots from someone else's life.

Above all do not give yourself airs. Breaking the moment of past habits is the challenge here: In the life of the spirit you are always at the beginning.

My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

Secreted and hidden in the heart of the world and in the heart of the human is the light which can illuminate all life, the future and the past. Shall we not search for it?

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.

The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.

Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either won on paper or held to a draw.

When you reminisce aren't the times that someone's forcing you to reminisce. You reminisce other times in your life.

If life were a movie, physical reality would be the entire DVD: Future and past frames exist just as much as the present one.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Hysteria, epilepsy, tuberculosis, and cancer were all found to result from the erratic propensities of a past life.

The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.

Life always comes out of death. The present rises from the ashes of the past. The future is always possible for those who are willing to re-create it.

I just have beautiful memories of what has happened in my life.

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?

Anytime we drag our past into the future, we have some grieving to do. When we refuse to grieve, we hang on to the weight of life that slows us down and robs us from finding our lives.

Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise.

The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.

That's our journey this month. Figuring it all out. Home is our starting point for connecting to the past.

Life was indeed interminable. The inattention of her contemporaries to some mortal questions, like race, didn't suit her. She didn't believe a past could, or should, be so easily discarded

All tradition is merely the past.