Quotes About Past

I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.

The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.

A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.

Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to pastWithout a word--the menLeaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriagesLasting a little while longer:Never such innocence again.

What does it matter who is ruler of a realm that no longer exists?

When time furtively slips like sand through the fingers and our memory becomes tired and lazy, we recognize we are at war. We are at war with forgetfulness. ("The past was her best friend" )

It was nearly ten years since the peace though her memories of the war still felt fresh.

The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified.

Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.

Past life knowledge is not the wedding album of existence. Past life remembrance in Buddhism is the ability to bring a greater awareness we had in another life into this life.

You cannot change the past, but you can make a difference now

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.

The study of History is the beginning of wisdom.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

Memory, prophecy, and fantasy— The past, the future, and The dreaming moment between— Are all in one country, Living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art.

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.