Past Quotes

Kahlil gibran, essay on robert frost, quoted in n. y.. times: obit - editorial, april 1982 - yes, there is a nirvanah; it is leading your...
An election is a bet on the future, not a popularity test of the past.
James Barrett Scotty Reston
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
Jawahar lal neheru - when the present is full of gloom, the past...
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.
Oprah Winfrey
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.
Dante, The Divine Comedy
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional?, 1993
The future is the past returning through another gate.
Arnold Glasgow
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
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
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
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.
Edna Ferbe
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
Lillian Hellman
John fitzgerald kennedy - our task is not to fix the blame for the past,...
Forget the past and live the present hour.
Sarah Knowles Bolton
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.
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Laurence J. Pete
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya Angelou
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
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004
Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future.
Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul
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
As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak she gave me a younger brother named Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.
Bill Cosby
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Alan Watts
Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
Marcus Valerius Martialis
The past is a guide post, not a hitching post.
L. Thomas Holdcroft
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
Jan Glidewell
Danger past, God forgotten.
Scottish Prove
Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.
Mae West
Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the future.
Unknown
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
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
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.
Krishnamurti
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
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
George Eliot
Geschichte ist... ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. re - Transl.: History is... a dialogue between the present and the past.
Edward Hallet Carr, Was ist Geschichte?, S. 54
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.
La Rochefoucauld