Quotes About Past

For those filled with regret, perhaps the most needful exercise of proactivity is to realize that past mistakes are also out there in the Circle of Concern. We can't recall them, we can't undo them, we can't control the consequences that came as a result.

but we just can't seem to rekindle the feeling we used to have.

For those filled with regret, perhaps the most needful exercise of proactivity is to realize that past mistakes are also out there in the Circle of Concern. We can't recall them, we can't undo them, we can't control the consequences that came as

Let the past bury its dead.  Easier said than done.

A wise person once said that the past cannot be changed. Only the future is in our power." "I prefer what Napoleon said. If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

People like him, who buried their past so determinedly, should not help it from the grave so easily.

I was at a Byron Katie seminar once when I heard her say something I never forgot. She said, "Do you know what I love most about the past? It's over!

Some questions to ask yourself before you get involved: How did he leave past relationships? Does he have a history of pitting women against each other? Is there an admitted history of dishonesty with another woman?

Los economistas ya han tenido bastantes dificultades para explicar el pasado, así que no hablemos de predecir el futuro.

If the past is a foreign country, it is a shockingly violent one. It is easy to forget how dangerous life used to be, how deeply brutality was once woven into the fabric of daily existence. Cultural memory pacifies the past, leaving us with pale souvenirs whose bloody origins have been bleached away.

But our intuitive conception of time differs from the ceaseless cosmic stream envisioned by Newton and Kant. To begin with, our experience of the present is not an infinitesimal instant. Instead it embraces some minimum duration, a moving window on life in which we apprehend not just the instantaneous now but a bit of the recent past and a bit of the impending future.

Social scientists should never try to predict the future; they have enough trouble predicting the past.")

However imperfect society may be, we should measure it against the cruelty and deprivation of the actual past, not the harmony and affluence of an imagined future.

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

Quienes condenan a las modernas sociedades capitalistas por su insensibilidad hacia los pobres probablemente ignoran lo poco que las sociedades precapitalistas del pasado invertían en el alivio de la pobreza.

Those who condemn modern capitalist societies for callousness toward the poor are probably unaware of how little the pre-capitalist societies of the past spent on poor relief.

Happy people live in the present; those with meaningful lives have a narrative about their past and a plan for the future.

and many people misremember the mid-20th century as a golden age of family togetherness.

We can't save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it's worth trying.

Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.

Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.

Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.

Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.

Every moment wasted looking back, keeps us from moving forward.