In The Past Quotes

We all have a past that may be worthy of some criticism".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

I missed my mother and Elysius. It wasn't that I wanted them with me at that very moment. I wanted them in the past. I wanted to have back just one sunny afternoon together.

Never forget the pastTo lead the future best

People like him, who buried their past so determinedly, should not help it from the grave so easily.

When someone points out your past mistakes, look at them dead in the eyes and follow with, 'and I’d do it all again to have the life I have now.

Knowingly or unknowingly, our past disappointments guide us positively and or negatively in our present day journey of life, based on how we see and use the lessons from our past!

I tell you the truth, so many people failed to do what they could have done because of the bitter things that happened in the past.

While winners were fully engaged with writing some great chapters in their lives, failures were busy trying to edit their past negative experiences.

When the past comes knocking, don't answer. It has nothing new to tell you.

May your hope keep you joyful.

Whatever it is that you think you have discovered. You must forget it.

Learn from past experiences but accept them all as perfect while staying in the present. Let go of everything that doesn't serve you.

You must befriend a few skeletons before you'll find your deepest self.

Healing doesn't just take a little time, it also takes commitment to get started and to complete the process.

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

WHE YOU FOCUS ON HEALING AND OVERCOME A TRAGEDY OR CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE, YOU BECOME A SURVIVOR, NOT A VICTIM ANYMORE.

We are on a journey not to be perfect, but to be whole.

The desert shatters the soul's arrogance and leaves body and soul crying out in thirst and hunger. In the desert we trust God or die.

If you are busy focusing on the falling bricks, you will never realize that they are truly stepping stones you need to cross over to the next phase of your life.

When you awaken and are self aware, you heal. When you heal, you heal the world.

When the storm rips you to pieces, you have to decide how to put yourself back together again.

If you want to heal Heal othersAnd smile or weepAt this happy reversal of fate

Hope kept us alive in the midst of the turbulence.

At the end of the day, what matters most is not what tore you apart but the love than binds and heals your heart.

We have to walk by faith to possess all that is duly ours.

Hope: Hold on, persistence effort!

I do not know the details of tomorrow, but I have a hope for a better tomorrows.

Harboring anger, hatred and resentment within you, is containing the venom within you. You are the only one affected...

It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you're alone. It feels less like a wound and more like a poultice.

If you feel like a failure in any area of your life, then you are in need of some self-forgiveness.

Learn to focus on the light ahead instead of dwelling on the darkness that's already behind you.

If you do not want to be forgotten as soon as you are dead...be read, or try coming back and pull the feet of those who are still alive instead!

Nothing on earth hurts my soul deeper than conditional love.

The contortions of the gargoyles were the only therapy we had.

...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happened, did.

We cannot change the past, she thought. How we long to sometimes, trying to work out how horror might have been averted by a fluke of fortune, a kind intercession, wisdom not yet granted.

Something's still wrong--the same thing that was wrong forty years ago. A malignancy, a tumor, slowly growing in someone's heart. A conscience that's seared.

Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future.

I do not laugh

The anger welled inside me, with no where to go. I could feel it eating away at me. I knew if i didn't find a way to release it, it would destroy me.

Give me your past, all your pain, all your anger, all your guilt. Release it to me, and I will be a safe harbor for the life you need to leave behind.

The way to free your feelings is to simply feel them.

Things didn't really go away. You just learned to push them deeper.

It took us a while to discover that we do effectively think, but that we more readily narrate backward in order to give ourselves the illusion of understanding, and give a cover to our past actions.

Stay positive. Sometimes you don't even realize you're blocking your own blessings by thinking negatively and holding on to the past. Learn to let go.

It takes just one day to remember one day! Mind today, for one day, you shall remember one day

I had forgotten, I suppose, that there were bright memories in amongst the dark.

I was haunting you, for so long, that I forgot that I became a ghost too.

The log on the fire: is it dreaming of the forest?

We can not say for the memories "go away", we can only protect us as they hit.