The Past Quotes

You cannot even touch my soul. So I have emerged stronger, Kinder, perceptive, forgiving To embrace you with all the humility.

Don’t forget the snow in the summertime, because you will meet him again when the summer is over!

Every moment is precious, even the ones behind me that I often reflect upon with a reserved smile. However…I seldom look back, only forward in anticipation of the next greater now.

Using your imagination means that you are using your most powerful tool of creation, manifestation and modification

The future begins when we tear down the walls that keep us in the past. We must be thankful for those who walked through the pain and helped us to see the way out.

People's behavior depends upon their current situation and past experience.

I recognized you instantly. All of our lives flashed through my mind in a split second. I felt a pull so strongly towards you that I almost couldn't stop it.

The mysteries of universe are revealed to those who seek to know the truth of their own existence first.

When you feel at peace with your troubles, they turn into lessons and ladders to help you climb to the next level of your evolution

Willfully polluting the ground with AC electricity is just another aspect of how the electrical utility companies will be remembered by the next generation.

It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from me. The charm of her voice no longer murmured in my ear.

The more we idealized the past, however, and refuse to acknowledge or childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.

The past lives through us. We are its legacy.

Centuries-old wounds are still raw because they never healed right in the first place. Here is the essential truth. We are better together than we are apart.

The present contains nothing more than the past and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

0 God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.

Weep no more lady weep no more Thy sorrow is in vain For violets plucked the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow again.

1 tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past according to his interest in the present.

God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.

Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better the present is worse than the past."

Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.

Oh this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is!

This strange disease of modern life with its sick hurry its divided aims.

Oh what times! Oh what standards!

Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.

There are two kinds of stones as everyone knows one which rolls.

Recognizing what we have done in the past is a recognition of ourselves. By conducting a dialogue with our past we are searching how to go forward.

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye to restore it and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

The past is never dead-it is not even past.

Past: Our cradle not our prison and there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration not imitation for continuation not repetition.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back.

We live in the present we dream of the future but we learn eternal truths from the past.

Truth however bitter can be accepted and woven into a design for living.

The past will not tell us what we ought to do but... what we ought to avoid.

Judgement comes from experience and great judgement comes from bad experience.

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

When the past has taught us that we have more within us than we have ever used our prayer is a cry to the divine to come to us and fill us with its power.

Ah tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past What is recalled by faded flowers Save that they did not last?

Here lies my past Goodbye I have kissed it Thank you kids I wouldn't have missed it.

Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles causes you to bump into people not going your way.

I demolish my bridges behind me ... then there is no choice but forward.

Looking repeatedly into the past you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life but rather with the phenomenon of memory.

Let the past drift away with the water.

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead you never look back.

The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries rinsed of debris sweetened judiciously and served in small portions not very often.

May I forget what ought to be forgotten and recall unfailing all that ought to be recalled each kindly thing forgetting what might sting.

Here's to the past. Thank God it's past!