Quotes About Past

Art invites us to become explorers and excavators of our vast internal landscapes, discovering new terrain and digging deep into the past to unearth forgotten experiences and emotion.

My unpleasant past has given me wisdom to build a pleasant Future.

You can't control the past, but you can control where you go next.

Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And yet… it's so hard to let them go… to forget… to move ahead…

The past is something that can not be fixed, but sets an example to fix the present to better the future.

You are connected to everything, and the creative power of the Universe is you; never feel separate from it. You have the choice of how you want to live today. You are not defined by your past or by things that may have happened to you in the past. Without those experiences, you wouldn't be who you are today. Sometimes you can't have what is in front of you if you're not willing to let go of what's behind you.

I just look at you and say, 'that used to be me. But it isn't anymore.

That old sweetheart of mine.

Enduring echoes call out from his past. Time ain't for saving, no time's not for that. Chasing false echoes like a lost legionnaire, He waltzes on memories while he fades like a flare.

My inspiration comes from the beauty of the past. That's where I am completely omnipotent. -Louise Bourgeois

Every saint has a past, the sixteenth-century poet had said, and every sinner has a future.

We must stop listening to voices from the past--and we must stop immediately.--Father Tim

He was praying the Psalms, as he'd done in times past, with the enemies of King David translated into his own enemies of fear and remorse and self-loathing, which, in their legions, had become as armies of darkness.

Y]ou cannot successfully navigate the future unless you keep always framed beside it a small clear image of the past.

Hebt u nog ouwe spulletjes? Alleen mezelf.

I mean, not when he was actually dead but from before, you know, when he wasn't dead?" "I get it.

If you are in search of happiness, make sure that your journey is free from things that get you caught up in the past. If your path is blocked by stuff that makes you remember things that do not help you move on, then it is about time to let go.

Apie praeit?, nebent ji b?t? be galo laiminga, vaikai kalb?ti nelink?.

But it's true, she thought, nobody really knows a thing about another's past. Why should we? Different worlds we all inhabit from the womb.

We are all the product of our past and have to live with our memories and personality they cannot be erased.

We are preoccupied with the past, which has already happened, and we are pre-occupied about the future, which does not yet exist. We worry about what will happen and we think about various things that make us feel anxious, frustrated, passionate, angry, resentful, afraid. While we are so preoccupied, our awareness of the here-and-now slips by and we hardly notice its passing. We eat without tasting, we look without seeing and live without ever perceiving what is real.

We are preoccupied with the past, which has already happened, and we are pre-occupied about the future, which does not yet exist. We worry about what will happen and we think about various things that make us feel anxious, frustrated, passionate, angry, resentful, afraid. While we are so preoccupied, our awareness of the here-and-now slips by and we hardly notice its passing.

When the time capsule from the past bursts open, flooding her with feelings, she will confuse her traumatic memory from the past with her experience in the present. Painful experiences from the past, if not understood, validated, processed, and integrated with a compassionate and trusted other, will continue to intrude on our present and form our beliefs and expectations of others and life experiences.

Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.