Quotes About Past

We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past its own biased vision.

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

I was holding on to a future that had been canceled. I was watching Boyfriend's future unfold while I stayed locked in the past. I'd need to accept that his future and mine, his present and mine, were now separate and that all we had left in common was our history.

early experiences inform who they are as adults so that they can separate the past from the present

thought about how regret can go one of two ways: it can either shackle you to the past or serve as an engine for change.

He wanted to change her past, but even as he thought it, he realized it was her very past that had shaped her into a woman who fascinated him.

He picked up his knife and started carving again. He concentrated on the lines and planes of the wood to keep his mind from wandering too far into the past. He had his own wounds that refused to heal.

When you're young, you wish for things in the future, but when you grow old... you wish for things from the past to

When you're young, you wish for things in the future, but when you grow old … you wish for things from the past

those were different times.

Tout ce qui fut sera pour peu qu'on s'en souvienne

Un beau soir l'avenir s'appelle le passé C'est alors qu'on se tourne et qu'on voit sa jeunesse.

On sacrifie plus aisément, l'avenir incertain que le souvenir assuré. L'homme redoute le risque.

Plotseling omhuiverde Lucius de heilige vrees voor Wat Is Geweest. En kwam hem klein voor, zijn eigen leven en leed...

O, laat het verleden herinnering zijn, heilige herinneringen, goudene herinneringen, maar zie nu aan het heden! O, laat het heden je troosten, het heden, klein, nederig en arm.

A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

En als de vliegers weg zijn dan is het droefste in uw leven dat ge zooveel menschen hebt gekend, en dat ge die nooit meer zult horen of zien.

En dan, anderen zouden het wel in mijn plaats ordenen. Anderen zouden wel handelend beginnen optreden. De anderen waren immers zo, steeds iets bewerkstelligend, steeds handelend aan het optreden. Ik kwam achterna, en voerde uit wat mij bevolen werd. Ik leefde als het ware niet in dit drukke en te zenuwachtige leven, maar bij dingen die voorbij waren, en die ik nu pas in mijn geest begon te ordenen.

The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.

Sometimes the past seemed like enough, in comparison with the disappointments of the present.

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.

Release the past, let it wash away. Take back your own power. Stop dwelling on what you don't want. Use your mind to create what you "do want." Let yourself flow with the tide of life.

realized that I had the power to change my life if I was willing to change my thinking and release the patterns that kept me living in the past.

We need to choose to release the past and forgive everyone, ourselves included. We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive, but the very fact that we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing process. It is imperative for our own healing that "we" release the past and forgive everyone. "I forgive you for not being the way I wanted you to be. I forgive you and I set you free.