In The Past Quotes
I now know how your angercame from skeletonsthat rattled in your heartand you couldn't escape them.
Sometimes we live too much in the past, remembering what we wished had happened.
From key signature to coda, from downbeat to the sound of life's final fermata, our pasts set the tone for all that was, that is, and that ever would be.
Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant…
True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.
magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened.
Only one life, it will soon be past, only what’s done for Christ will last.
Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures where we dare to face our past for the sake of our present.
Have compassion for your past. By showing love to the present. Your past was just the portal to now.
Memories tell me who I was, not who I’ll become. They don’t fix the present any more than they fix the past.
When the time is right, life will have a meaning.When the time is right, world will be bright again.When the time is right, things will fall into place.Just remember, never regret.
Some thoughts are like old piece of belongings that need to be disposed to move on.
Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds--our stories of loneliness, rejection, grief--that we don't realize they are in the past. They can't hurt us anymore.
Living is a process of developing oneself. Without experiencing pain from disconcerting periods of our lives, we would be different person, perhaps a lesser person.
Who you are in Christ is far more important and meaningful than whatever has taken place in your past.
No human can bury their past indefinitely. It’s only a matter of time before you crack.
The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be, ' there is only what is.
My past is trying to catch up to me and I must continue run from it. It's the only way I can live.
You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here.
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…
Sometimes, Miss Jarmond, it's not easy to bring back the past. There are unpleasant surprises. The truth is harder than ignorance
Smartass Disciple: Master, I want to be the better me by forgetting my past.Master of Stupidity: If you just forget it, how would you measure you're better?
It was no good to look back, to apologize for what had happened, or to wonder what could have been different.
When I moved, I unearthed the diaries I kept for ten years. I sat and went through them and they were a worthless burden to own. People will say it's tragic I threw them out, but I know it isn't.
(M)uch as we might imagine we can leave the past behind, it has a nasty way of pressing its hoary old face against the window just as we were sitting down to the feast.
To live meant feeding my former self to my current self.
So, yes, I will marry you. Someday. If you'll have me, " he said modestly."Of course I will, you idiot, " I said with a shriek, and threw myself into his arms.
In the New Year, never forget to thank to your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future!
Withdraw, like a turtle, into a hard yet harmless shell, ornamented with beautiful memories of the past.from the book 'I Know Who You Are!
While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time.
The past is fractal premonition, infinite to the eye but nothing to be built on . . .
The past is truly an inoperable tumour that spreads to the present.
He says to me, Ranulph, he says... that the past will never come again, but that we must remember that the past is made of the present, and that the present is always here.
When the Lord disconnects you from your past, don't try to hook up with it again.
If I shut everything else out and filled the room with memories, the past could become the present, and I could live there, with him. I would never leave.