Our Past Quotes

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

Our past is a novel that we are constantly revising.

I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.

God's never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.

If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.

How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?

The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.

Don't let your past dictate who you are, but let it be part of who you will become.

If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.

It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.

We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future.

To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

The reason I entered politics was a belief that the people of this country - having achieved so much that was good and noble in our past - had the potential to do amazing things in the future.

In Africa I discovered what the true purpose of a musician is. We are historians, and it is our purpose to tell the people the true story of our past, and to extend a better vision of the future.

Our past has gone into history.

We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!

Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.

Revisit your past only to recognize how far you have come.

I really believe that our past can really hold us back from growth, so the best thing that we can do is MOVE ON and NOT DWELL.

So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.

We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility.

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.

One aspect of power is to bring our past-life awareness into this lifetime. The second aspect of power is to go into new fields of awareness that we have never experienced.

It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.

We must also suffer the consequences of our past decisions. And for that, we must open our hearts to those in need.

Our past is not our potential.

This is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on. But there is this telling and there is such a thing as passing through.

Great has been our past, wonderful is our present, and glorious can be our future.

So much of our future lies in preserving our past.

But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back.

Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.

It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure

Through salvation our past has been forgiven, our present is given meaning, and out future is secured.

Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is the stuff of great stories.

We stand together as we did two centuries ago, One people under God determined that our future shall be worthy of our past.

We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now.

If we want a new future that does not look like our past, we must make new choices in the present.

In order to live the life we desire, and set the intention for greater happiness and more meaningful connections with others, we have to release the hold that our past has on us

Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack.

We should probably all pause to confront our past from time to time, because it changes its meaning as our circumstances alter.

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

We don't have to be victims of our past, that we can let go of our bitterness, and that all of us can achieve greatness.

A powerful motivation for believing God in our present is intentionally remembering how He's worked in our past.

With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.

Owning our past allows us to own our future.

Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can affect us. We live in the relative world of time and space.