The Past Quotes

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

Children who remember their past lives offer the most compelling evidence yet for reincarnation.

I believe you can remember the future as much as the past

If you don't let your past die, then it won't let you live. Period.

I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders.

the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.

Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present.

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future.

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.

The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past.

Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real.

Millions of people are afraid of the past, the future, old age, insanity and death. But fear is a thought in your mind. This means that you are afraid of your own thoughts.

I've spent the past two years looking for my ex-girlfriend’s killer… but no one will do it.

Push me past my limit all you want. It's territory I know well.

If he wants meaning-the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life-a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain.

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.

We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.

If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about for the past two thousand years.

I like to use the hard times of the past to motivate me today.

If we want to create a different future, we must have the courage to look at the past.

Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.

I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan.

We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.

My future will be better than my past.

Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

Past time is finite, future time is infinite.

My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

Ideally the ultimate retreat is to retreat from the past and the future to always remain in the present.

Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.

You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.

Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask - you are exhibiting your past life on your body.

No matter what happened to you in your past, you are not your past, you are the resources and the capabilities you glean from it. And that is the basis for all change.

The pages of your past cannot be rewritten, but the pages of your tomorrows are blank.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past. In silence you can’t hide anything … as you can in words.