Quotes About Past

Anyone who refuses to leave his/her past in the past is likely to adversely affect his/her future. Yes you heard me right, therefore, you've got to have a rethink and do live for/appreciate what today/present has to offer you and not at all what the past/yesterday has already taken away from you. Besides, the future ahead of you has a lot of goodies/positivities to offer you even more than whatever you think that you've lost in the past.

God is highly interested to give us a new beginning but guess what? He can't do that until you let go of the old. Yes! you heard me right. You've got to let go of your old which is your past mistakes, failures, disappointments and stuff like that. Oh! yes, you ought to let go of the old (your past) in order to pave way for the new, which is your promising future. For, your past is gone forever, but the future is yet to come. Besides, I do believe the future is promising.

Hatred/living in your/one's past is self abuse i.e. it's a habit/life style that causes damage/harm to your own self/oneself. So, desist from that.

Letting go is simply, refusing to be intimidated by your/one's past. It is as well, not allowing your past failures or mistakes to affect your present life and the future ahead of you. Do remember, whoever that refuses to let go of his or her past is likely to ruin his or her future. Moreover, if you keep on living in your past. You will become a prisoner of your past rather than a pioneer of your future.

No one can help his or her past. Yes of course, there is no help for it. But interestingly, we all can help our future by utilizing the present time in order to eventually maximize the future ahead of us. Because, it is what you are doing presently that will determine what and how your future or tomorrow will be or become.

Regretting/worrying over the past events/actions is nothing else but only a blind alley i.e. regretting/worrying over and over again is a course of action that definitely leads to nowhere/no progress. Thus, quit worrying over and over again no matter your condition.

The past is just a guide to redress the mistakes or errors of yesterdays or yester years in order to eventually make the present time what it is expected to be. While, the future itself is a great privilege to showcase or judiciously use up the potentials that you have. First and foremost for your own good. But most importantly, for the betterment of others.

Until you resolve to let go of whatever that is behind you i.e. your miserable past life/failures/mistakes. You will hardly reach out to what is before you (the fabulous future ahead of you).

You are/will remain a prisoner of your past rather than a pioneer of your future until you refuse/quit outrightly to live in your past/good old days. You can say I said so.

Your past or yesterday is gone forever. So, forget it outrightly. The future is yet to come. Thus, never be bothered about it. Rather, plan for it and work towards it. Today is right before you. And so, you've got to utilize it and maximize it as well in order to avoid regrets eventually. -Emeasoba George

Your past/yesterday is gone forever. So, forget it outrightly. Your tomorrow/future is yet to come. Thus, never be bothered about it. Rather, plan/work for it. Today/the present is right before you and you've got to utilize/maximize it in order to avoid regrets eventually.

If you don't know your history, you will be controlled by its ghosts.

There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment, still less to live through it. Life would be bearable only to frivolous natures, those in fact who do not remember.

Èšine deja de trecut", spune el despre tot ce face, în chiar momentul actului, care e astfel privat pentru totdeauna de prezent.

Our obsession with birth, by shifting us to a point before our past, robs us of our pleasure in the future, in the present, and even in the past.

The future appeals to you? All yours! Myself I prefer to keep to the incredible present and the incredible past. I leave it to you to face the Incredible itself.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

L'histoire est une leçon d'inhumanité. Pas une goutte de sang du passé ne peut troubler le présent où je suis.

The feeling of being ten thousand years behind, or ahead, of the others, of belonging to the beginnings or to the end of humanity...

Yet evil, the real evil, is behind, not ahead of us.

With sufficient perspective, nothing is good or bad. The historian who ventures to judge the past is writing journalism in another century.

our past so quickly stops being "ours" and turns into history, something which no longer concerns anyone.

Mine still, this moment passes by, escapes me, and is buried forever. Am I going to commit myself with the next? I make up my mind: it is here, it belongs to me — and already is long since past. From morning to night, fabricating the past!