In The Past Quotes

I think houses live their own lives along a time-stream that's different from the ones upon which their owners float, one that's slower. In a house, especially an old one, the past is closer.

He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

you don't need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago,

What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be

Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?She had shaken her head slowly.Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.

As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, we attack it, and we try to kill it.

Gone - glimmering through the dream of things that were.

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages.

The "good old times"-all times when old are good.

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forward.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

It's but little good you'll go a-water-ing the last year's crop.

I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.

Fear not for the future weep not for the past.

This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

Although I think of myself as the greatest heavyweight, I do respect the legends of the past for what they did. But they are not my heroes.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.

Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

People don't realize that now is all there ever is there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.

Going away won't change anything if you're running from yourself.

I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present.

Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now.

To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you revisit it, analyze it, regret it, or sweat it…it’s over. It can hurt you no more.

The success of the future does not lie solely on the safety of the past, but relies broadly on the security of the present.

It is a fight to let go of a past that refuses to withdraw its sticky tentacles from your present.

Healing is your right, your responsibility and the risk you can't afford not to take.

Don't everallowthe disharmony of otherstobecome your ownamindful practiceof discernment(and the dislike for wearing bullshit)buildsthe eye, heart and spiritual muscles.

For every spirit who is learning: you heal yourself.

If it doesn't agree with your spirit let it go.

When we think carefully about the past, we get to know and understand not just what happened in the past but what really went into things that happened in the past.

Your past success is a foundation into future success.

People from the past, have a tendency to walk back into the present, and run over the future.

You owe it to your inner-self to never allow your past to take the place of your present or future.

Don't recide in the past. Instead, refer to it, else you will remain in the remand of high demand but with low command

Gone are the days when success depends on how you use your muscle tissues. In this 21st century, your brain cells must work more than your muscle tissues!

It's a tiring game resenting the scars and the fearful memories.

If you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!

even in death, his last breath was poetryexisting in the wind and on the breeze of"it used to be likes" forever remembering, yet never relivinghis lifewill never be what it used to be like.

Where are you? In the past or in the future? It doesn't matter because if you are not in today you are in the wrong place!

The challenge is to draw on the past but not be bound by it" p. 20