Quotes About Past

Life is about learning from the past, embracing the present, and believing in the future.

The vision may be the destination but the journey began with a past which will stay connected whatever the sages may say against it - there is always a hyperlink.

Life is made of the past, present and the future. We're shaped by our past, and we're shaping our future with our present.

Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can't change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and a stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future was the past was not.

My parents...were people running from the past, who didn't look back at much if they could help it, and whose whole life always lay somewhere in the offing.

If I let the past and my goals be the only thing that drives me in life, I will never know the meaning of being happy.

Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves to release us from the shackles of our past. The pain of those who wounded us may linger but it needn't overshadow our happiness.

We don't always know when or why, but these memories come back to us, reminders of what we did and who we were in another time.

Far off from these a slow and silent stream,Lethe the river of oblivion rolls.

Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was

it is important to stress that history is always constructed, not absolute or unchallangeable. Histories are stories about the past, and reconstructing the past ill involve elements of mythologising from the cultural, political and theoretical stances of both the historian and the informants.

The explanation of the blindness [in John 9] lies not in the past causes but the future purposes.

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.

We are preaching hope, standing on the bones of the past.

Today, I will try to remember to regret the past. I will think of how many mistakes I have made throughout my life. I will say to myself, 'If only I could go back in time and make different choices, so that my life could be the way it should have been.' Then I will remind myself that I cannot.

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

Free your expectation of the future from the grip of past failure.

It was a bitter thing. You might give up lawing, but some no-account would pop up from the underbrush of the past and shoot you in the back.

Things are best that way, Deoga. Forgetting, not remembering. You Farangs become encumbered with your past. The past drives you mad. It keeps you from acting sensibly.

On suicide: Those are vanities, child. They cause immeasurable suffering in this life and all future lives. Who knows, perhaps you have been given this harsh portion because of misdeeds in some past life.

David Manning White] maintains that critics romanticize the past in order to castigate the present.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past.