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Quotes About Past

By living exclusively for the present, we let ourselves be hemmed in by an ocean of death. Conversely, by reviving the past, we enlarge our living space.
~ Amin Maalouf, Orígenes
It's hard getting momentum riding a bike up hill... It's hard getting momentum when you're dragging around all the pain from your past.
~ Tony Curl
The longer you live in the past, the less future you have to enjoy.
~ Robert Tew
A past will never die. It's always there and always present as long as your living breathing and able to remember.
~ Stephen Lozada
Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.
~ Carla H. Krueger, Coma House
There are things that you might forget, but you might not clearly forget. Time is the only coin you have to buy the things you want to remember, and to pay for the things you want to leave behind.
~ Aileene Mhar Jabarani
The are things that you might forget, but you might not clearly forget. Time is the only coin you have to buy the things you want to remember, and to pay for the things you want to leave behind.
~ Aileene Mhar Jabarani
What you did in the past is your business. Those were your choices—your mistakes—if you even believe they were mistakes. Stop caring what anyone thinks and live your life the way you want to live it.
~ Laura Wright, Eternal Kiss
It's just that...without the memories, it's all meaningless.
~ Lois Lowry, The Giver
Sometime we must visit old memories to make new ones.
~ Aisha Mirza
We are what we are because of what we've been
~ Jo Beverley
We're making decisions right now that shape our lives. Even indecision is a decision. What's going on today is a result of the choices we've made in the past.
~ Toni Sorenson
We cannot change the past. We can only take action in the present and, therefore, change the future.
~ Ken Poirot
When your past tries to haunt you tell it you don't believe in ghosts.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot carry your past without dropping your future.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present.
~ Edward Hallett Carr
Self-love means caring for ourselves enough to forgive people in our past so that the wounds can no longer damage us - for our wounds do not hurt the people who hurt us, they hurt only us.
~ Caroline Myss
I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
~ Winston Churchill
I had to learn to forgive myself, not to judge, but to learn from the past. They showed me how vital it is to accept, be truthful, and love myself. So I could do the same with others.
~ Marlo Morgan
Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.
~ T. S. Eliot
I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.
~ David Gerrold
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
~ Felix Adler
Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change.
~ Atul Purohit
Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.
~ Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild