Quotes About Past

past is like a histroy book were we can learn what weve done in it.

No ?im se umiri i ponada da ?e utonuti u san, napadaju je sje?anja. U njoj se nakupimo tuge za nekoliko života. Prošlost je talog kojeg se ne uspijeva riješiti.

How curious it was to find that apparently nothing was ever really forgotten, that the past was never really gone, that it was always lurking, ready to destroy the present, or at least to make the present seem absurd.

O problema não era o fato de ele não mais acreditar no sonho; o problema era ele nem sequer achar sua improbabilidade interessante ou triste. Como um velho, preocupava-se com o passado e não com o futuro.

As Buddha said, "What you are is what you have been, what you will be is what you do now." Padmasambhava went further: "If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.

Ce que vous êtes est ce que vous avez été », disait le Bouddha ; « ce que vous serez est ce que vous faites maintenant

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

nostalgic people yearn for the past for a good reason---because they missed it, they weren't fully there when they should have been, when it was the present.

memories of the past are not the past. They're thoughts you have in the present, about the past.

All that is and shall be,And all the past, is his [Zeus's].

It is probably the only memory of real joy I have in the madness of my past.

Is it because with the future unknown, the present traumatic, that we find the past so secure?

According to the karma of past actions, one's destiny unfolds, even though everyone wants to be so lucky.

Regretting the past is the first sign of ignorance. Anxiety about the future is the second sign of ignorance. And being miserable is the sign of total ignorance. If you are in regret mode, then you are on the first step and that is 'Vishada Yoga'.

Past should be seen as destiny. Future should be seen as free will. This is wisdom. Wise people do like that. Otherwise what you think; you think the past was free will so you regret the past and future you think is destiny and you do nothing about it. You simply sit. We must reverse this tendency.

How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.

And the good delight to hear of the past evils of such as are now freed from them, not because they are evils, but because they have been and are not.

When then time is passing, it may be perceived and measured; but when it is past, it cannot, because it is not.

This vignette reminds me of Maurice Maeterlinck's dictum: "At every crossway on the road that leads to the future, tradition has placed, against each of us, ten thousand men to guard the past.

Hearing from you makes me long for simpler times, but perhaps the attraction of the past is that it is over, and we can make of it what we will.

In the early 1950s the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, tried something old. Like many another venue for productions of Shakespeare, Chekhov, and Shaw, the Brattle had become a film house in the early 1950s. But it was a film house unlike any other. It had a rear-screen projector, rather than the standard setup that beamed movies on a screen above the audience. And it had owners who believed that the past could be more alluring than the present.

He listened yet more intently to what was within him, to the past, to see whether that voice of memory truly foretelling the future would not speak to him again, revealing the present to him as well as the past.

That is to say, I went in search of every moment I had spent with him. ..." "...just to relive the past once more, only once more. .....,retracing our path, so that every word and gesture would revive in my mind again.

And he listened yet more intently to what was within him, to the past, to see whether that voice of memory truly foretelling the future would not speak to him again, revealing the present to him as well as the past.