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Quotes About Past

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could be any different." It's accepting the past for what it was and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward. — Opra
~ Oprah Winfrey
experienced things that caused you to deemed yourself unworthy. Healing the wounds of the past is one of the biggest and most worthwhile challenges of life. It's important to know when and how you were programed so you can change the program. In doing so is your responsibility no one else's.
~ Oprah Winfrey
I know for sure that healing the wounds of the past is one of the biggest and most worthwhile challenges of life.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Your past is not an excuse. But it is an explanation - offering insight into the questions so many of us ask ourselves: Why do I behave the way I behave? Why do I feel the way I do? For me, there is no doubt that our strengths, vulnerabilities, and unique responses are an expression of what happened to us.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. The wounds will bleed through and stain your life.
~ Oprah Winfrey
The difference lies in the fact that in Istanbul the remains of a glorious past civilization are everywhere visible. No matter how ill-kept, no matter how neglected or hemmed in they are by concrete monstrosities, the great mosques and other monuments of the city, as well as the lesser detritus of empire in every side street and corner—the little arches, fountains, and neighborhood mosques—inflict heartache on all who live among them. These
~ Orhan Pamuk
But as nothing, Western or local, came to fill the void, the great drive to Westernise amounted mostly to the erasure of the past; the effect on culture was reductive and stunting
~ Orhan Pamuk
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
~ Orson Scott Card
a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.
~ Orson Scott Card
I am only what I remember.
~ Orson Scott Card
Is the future, is the past, all that matters to you? Don't you have just a little bit of room for the present?
~ Orson Scott Card
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven. Maybe I could have been content. Maybe not.
~ Orson Scott Card
History is a chaotic system. The details can shift endlessly, but the overall shape remains constant. Make a small change in the past, and it changes enough details in the present that we would not have come together at exactly this place and time to watch exactly this scene. And yet the great movements of history would be largely unchanged.
~ Orson Scott Card
The one charm about the past is that it is the past.
~ Oscar Wilde
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
~ Oscar Wilde
The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.
~ Oscar Wilde
After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one's tears.
~ Oscar Wilde
The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future.
~ Oscar Wilde
The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.
~ Oscar Wilde
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
~ Oscar Wilde
What is done is done. What is past is past. You call yesterday the past? What has the actual lapse of time got to do with it? It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
~ Oscar Wilde
Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is
~ Oscar Wilde
MISS PRISM Memory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us.
~ Oscar Wilde
You can't go back," Gilchrist said. "Haven't you heard? We're under quarantine, thanks to Mr. Dunworthy's carelessness.
~ Connie Willis