Quotes About Past

As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about.

Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past.

If we can develop the ability to be aware of the present moment, we can use the past as a guide for ordering our actions in the future, so that we may attain our goal.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess

Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

It takes a lot of courage and trust to look past what you've been through, and trust someone new not to put you through it again. I'm ready again hoping this time it will be forever.

Forgive and forget who hurt you, but don't forget who loves you everyday. Forget the past that makes you cry and focus on the present that makes you smile.

People tell me to forget about the past but what happens when that person you're with today isn't better than your last.

Forgive the past, forgive yourself, forgive your partner, and love the present moment for what its worth. There are plenty of beautiful things to love right now; you just have to want to see them.

The more anger you hold in your heart towards the past, the less capable you are of loving the present.

Remember the past, Love the present, look toward the future, never forget, always forgive, don't regret decisions, live every day as if its your last.

Dead IS so LAST year

Tal vez el futuro del mundo se halle en mejores manos si nos olvidamos de descubrir cosas nuevas y nos concentramos en recuperar nuestro pasado.

Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.

Everyone clings to their history with a vengeance because it anchors their identity.

There's nothing wrong with understanding. Understanding the past is perfectly admissible if your issue is accepting the past. But if your issue is changing the future, understanding will not take you there. My experience tells me that the only effective approach is looking people in the eye and saying, "If you want to change, do this.

But for some reason, many people enjoy living in the past, especially if going back there lets them blame someone else for anything that's gone wrong in their lives. That's when clinging to the past becomes an interpersonal problem. We use the past as a weapon against others.

the past is done and despite how much human beings like to dig it back up, the past cannot predict the future. It can only make it harder to clearly see the next path.

the future is always more important than the past.

What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now.

Is there any good reason why we cannot extend our multi-cultural generosity to include another dimension? That of time. The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores.

Critical voices have to care about history. We have to care about the way in which things get controlled in the past because that's when the damage gets done and if we don't keep that historical memory, we will allow them to do it again next time.