Past Quotes
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.Buddha
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.William Shakespeare
Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.John F. Kennedy
Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.Real Live Preacher, weblog, 04 - 29 - 04
The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well - Educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football.Mark White
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.Arthur Wing Pinero
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.George Du Maurie
Forget the past and live the present hour.Sarah Knowles Bolton
But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.Arthur C. Clarke
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.L. P. Hartley
The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.Samuel Butler, 1835 - 1902
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.Frederick Henry Hedge
We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present.Fairfield Osborne
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labour in.Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Danger past, God forgotten.Scottish Prove
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.Oswald Chambers
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.Euripides, Phrixus
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.Barbara de Angelis
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.Elizabeth II
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.Robert Benchley
So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.Victor Hugo
I know of no way to judge the future but by the past.Patrick Henry
Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - Act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.Anna Mary Robertson Moses
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.William Ralph Inge
One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.Michael Cibenko
When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.Martin Luthe
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.John Milton
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.Thomas Carlyle
Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.Tom Wolfe, "Bonfire of the Vanities".
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.La Bruyere
Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.Marcus Valerius Martialis
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well - Being of the community - These are the most vital things education must try to produce.Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.Krishnamurti
