The Past Quotes

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

The future is of greater interest to me than the past, since that is where I intend to spend the rest of my life.

It's not the strongest or the most intelligent who survive, but those most adaptive to change. Over the past 10 years, the need for, and focus on, adaptability has accelerated.

I read that Buddha was able to see all of his past lives, and I realized the only way any of these people could do that is by being outside of time.

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.

My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.

The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past.

There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

Don't let past mistakes keep you from seeking God

The future is born, put the past in a casket

Power is knowing your past.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future,and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past.

We have to fight the past to survive.

Fill your heart with the creative power to accept the past, decorate the present and transform the future.

The importance of recovering the customs and the institutions of the past thus inaugurating the archaeological approach to art.

We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.

We are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us just as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its future.

It is not given to our weak intellects to understand the steps of Providence as they occur: we comprehend them only as we look back upon them in the far-distant past.

Every second you dwell on the past you steal from your future. Every minute you spend focusing on your problems you take away from finding your solutions.

I have said this in the past and I will continue to repeat it as long as I live: Whoever tries to hurt our national unity is my enemy until the day of judgement.

Within this moment, the only moment that exists, the past, present and future are contained.

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.

It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita

Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

It's hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I've learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future.

Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves that allows us to get on with our lives instead of being trapped in the past by resentment.

I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.

Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.

Do not follow after the past; do not go forward to meet the future. Instead, just rest the mind naturally in the present awareness.

You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and [the problem's] past history! When you have investigated the problem thoroughly, you will know how to solve it.

It's a new day, a new beginning for your new life. With discipline you will be amazed at how much progress you'll be able to make. What have you got to lose except the guilt and fear of the past?

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

Grace keeps us from worrying because worry deals with the past, while grace deals with the present and future.

Fear is the culprit that robs us of our greatest lives. And although it's mostly made up or a learned behavior from our past, almost everybody I've ever met in my life struggles with fear.

The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. View it as your friend, and it will give you wings.

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.