Past Quotes

Look back, and smile on perils past.
Sir Walter Scott
R. d. laing - to live in the past or in the future may be less...
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.
Oswald Chambers
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya Angelou
The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down.
Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
Virginia woolf - each has his past shut in him like the leaves of...
One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.
Anatole France
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Wayne W Dye
Michael cibenko - one problem with gazing too frequently into the...
Forget the past and live the present hour.
Sarah Knowles Bolton
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.
Fritz Perls
Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity.
Harold J. Seymore
History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
George Macaulay Trevelyan
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.
Frank Herbert, Dune
No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.
George Steine
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
Demosthenes, First Olynthiac
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - - And in fact we have forgotten.
Euripides
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
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The Past Our cradle, not our prison there is danger as well as appeal in its glamor. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repitition.
Israel Zangwill
Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future.
Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Past and to come seem best things present worst.
Mary Bertone
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
Russell Hoban
He who controls the past controls the future.
George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty - Four".
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
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10, 000 men to guard the past.
Maurice Masterlinck
One day at a time - This is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.
Ida Scott Taylor.
This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.
Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Charles R. Swindoll
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
Kahlil Gibran, Essay on Robert Frost, quoted in N. Y.. Times: Obit - Editorial, April 1982
The past is the tomorrow that got away.
Leonard L. Levinson
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
Jim Bishop
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell