Quotes About Past

We're hardwired by nature to find common social ground, to believe that whatever we're doing today is normal and not much different from the way people have always behaved. We assume human achievement is on an upward slope, that learning from the past has made us stronger and smarter than anyone of the past.

The heroes of the past are untouchable, protected forever by the fortress door of time—

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

History is not a conversation with the past, Instead, in Warburg, memory is carried forward to us, objectively, by the sequence of pathos-formulas. We do not choose our past, it chooses us. This was not an entirely direful story. The pathos-formulas register danger but they also ward it off, apotropaically. Art creates the psychic distance that gives mankind a chance in its struggle with hostile nature or with the gods.

One of the regular temptations seducing historians and their audience is to imagine knowledge of the past

I think you can learn from history.

When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

3 KEYS to a happy life ... CTRL+ALT+DEL. CONTROL your emotions, Look for an ALTERNATIVE, DELETE the past,and move on

Sometimes she wondered if she was doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, since she'd trained herself not to look back at it.

The pressure of past tragedies drove him forward - the need to escape reminders of his losses, and the desire to be somewhere other than where he'd been. That, and a smoldering desire for revenge.

Aku telah melakukan kesalahan dalam hidupku. Di masa silam aku telah mengakuinya dan pengakuan itu menimbulkan kekuatan. Tetapi keberanian dari seseorang terletak pada keyakinannya bahwa dia telah bertindak benar. Aku tidak akan hidup, jika tidak yakin dengan kuat dan pasti, bahwa apa yang kukerjakan waktu itu adalah benar. Kalau tidak begitu aku merupakan orang yang lemah.

Feodalisme adalah milik masa lalu yang sudah mati, bukan milik Indonesia di masa depan.

Kita harus melepaskan diri dari pengaruh-pengaruh yang membelenggu kita pada masa lalu yang memalukan, seperti para pelayan, jongos, dan orang desa yang tidak punya nama dan tidak punya wajah.

I don't have a lot of regrets about the way I've lived my life. Not because I haven't made mistakes - I've made plenty. But what's the point of regret? You can't undo the past.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it." —Michel de Montaigne, February 28,1533–September 13, 1592

Before long, he caught a hold of himself and concluded that nothing ever did happen again; to each was given days and chances which wouldn't come back around. And wasn't it sweet to be where you were and let it remind you of the past for once, despite the upset, instead of always looking on into the mechanics of the days and the trouble ahead, which might never come.

but the worst that could have happened was also already behind him; the thing not done,

Enseguida recuperó el control y llegó a la conclusión de que nunca se volvía a lo que había pasado; a cada uno se le daban días y oportunidades que no volvían a tenerse. ¿No era acaso agradable estar donde estabas y dejar que, por una vez, eso te recordara el pasado, a pesar del malestar, en lugar de estar siempre pendiente de la mecánica de los días y los problemas futuros, que tal vez nunca llegasen?

Just because you know it [my past]... doesn't mean that my wounds are a weight you have to carry. ~Kurogane-san

And woman was mystery in itself, she discovered. There was in all of them a quality of raw material, something that might one day define itself but which was never realized, because its real essence was "becoming". Wasn't it precisely through this that the past was united with the future and with all times?

Tengo que pagar el precio. El precio de quien tiene un pasado que sólo se renueva con pasión en el extraño presente. Cuando pienso en lo que ya he vivido me parece que he ido dejando mis cuerpos por el camino.

Tienes la costumbre de querer saber por qué -el por qué no me interesa, la causa es la materia del pasado.

Soy un ser concomitante: reúno en mí el tiempo pasado, el presente y el futuro, el tiempo que late en el tiempo de los relojes.