Quotes About Past

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.

Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.

Whatever is newly expensive has two attributes: wonderful past returns and, in most cases, lousy future returns.

Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.

The past is over, so it has no power now. The thoughts of this moment create my future.

Let the past be what it was, the present what it is, the future the best it can be.

Trust in Divine timing. Your future holds something far greater than your past.

We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.

That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.

And I was afraid because I knew I had outgrown my past before I could see a path to my future.

Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future.

You gotta keep things moving. If leaving behind the past means you can have a better future, then, sure, why not?

The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.

One cannot build a future based on the description of a criminal past.

Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.

What is now in the past was once in the future

I can't change the past, but I can try to make a better future for me.

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.

The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

The future is the keeper of the memories of the past

And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.