Quotes about past

When ready to settle down: women are more interested in where the man is going men are more interested in where the woman has been.

These are the moments that make the dot-to-dot pictures of our past everything else is simply filling in the gaps.

The past is a hotel. You can visit any time enjoy the view. But you can't live there. The cost is to high.

Her soft trailing fingers would continue to attempt a connection that I refused to allow that I couldn’t allow if I wanted to survive.

More than half of my life is past I have left only the time I need for turning the rest of it to account and for effacing my errors by my virtues.

Your life is like a book you decide what to write on it or erase from it But you might not be able to erase completely your past mistakes. So the choices you make today will determine how the book (your life)will look like.

The next 15 years are more important than the previous 15. The past is done learn from it and move on.

Moving on is not about forgetting the past it’s about learning from it. Find the message in the mess…Cry. Forgive. Learn. That’s moving on.

Writers don't forget the past they turn it into raw material.

Your dirty past somehow puts GOD's grace on blast it amplifies the great grace of GOD over your life.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute its memoried glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious.

Atonement was powerful it was the lock on the door you closed against the past.

Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth it touches the rocks and there spring forth in orderly succession the monarchs of the past and the ancient river streams and savannahs wherein they flourished. The rocks usually hide their story in the most difficult and inaccessible places.

When our sympathy leads to friendship and our friendship leads to love only few will understand that it is the end of our past.

Don’t swear at your past you couldn’t existed without it! It is the only path to reach today and tomorrow! Remember that past is a great teacher who thought us all we know now!

Past has a very great superiority over the future: The future may not exist but the past existed!

The past will be your teacher if you learn from it your master if you live in it.

Accept the past embrace the present consider the future.

My mind has a time machine it can travel back to the past when I close my eyes and in my dreams it travels to the future.

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future we wish to have existed in some distant past.

To envision the future you must forget the past and make the present a memory

I stole their future from them I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

The only way to predict the future is to create it. You don't let it happen. You make it happen. How? Stop regretting the past and start learning from it. Let go of guilt by leaning into God's grace. Quit beating yourself up and let the Spirit of God heal your heart. You cannot divorce yourself from the past. You are married to it forever. But God wants to reconcile your past by redeeming it. God is in the recycling business He makes recycled goods out of wasted lives.

Your past isn’t there to decide who you are it’s there to guide you to a better version of yourself.

The young man only looks to the future because he has lived little the old man looks to the past because he has little left to live.

History is the diary of humankind to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past.

Don't judge yourself by your past you no longer live there.

Umm... I don't judge my relationship with Puff or Bad Boy according to other people or past artists. At the end of the day, you are in charge of your career, and you can't depend on no man to do anything for you. I've learned to judge relationships with a person on myself and that person, not what they have done with previous people.

Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one's past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of it.

We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity.

You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it.

Wine writers have been around for almost as long as there has been wine, but in the past, generally speaking, most wine writing was uncritical and emphasized wine as a romantic, historic beverage. Criticism and comparative tastings were eschewed for fear of offending the trade, which most writers depended upon for survival.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn't live past 30.

Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

When our neighbor's personality possesses harsh qualities, we show our love by not voluntarily provoking those qualities in any way. Past experience shows us what upsets a person, so in their presence we are careful not to do or say those things that cause anger. We are self-effacing.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.

Green Arrow has gone through so many changes; he's been right-wing, he's been left-wing, he's been rich, he's been poor, he's been a social justice guy, then when I got him, he was a rich playboy guy. So it was a lot harder to get into a character that has so many personas in the past, and I just looked at his anger.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

I wouldn't change a thing about what I've done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.

This past year has been something else... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives.

It takes about four days of virtuous living to create a little weight loss. That also happens to be the time required to get used to eating less. In other words, if you can get past day three of a fitness regimen, things improve.

There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way.

I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.

I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worried about it. I can't change it. I can't fix it. It is what it is. I'm just living.

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

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 theres some kind of change.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Going by my past journey, I am not certain where life will take me, what turns and twists will happen; nobody knows where they will end up. As life changes direction, I'll flow with it.

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

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.

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn't the world see this injustice?

More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

In the past the man has been first in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.

I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.

Past and future is determined by what is now…right now! This is why the present is a gift the only one that ultimately matters most.

I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.

I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.

You can't let your past hold your future hostage.

My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish? If I can give young people something to think about, like the future, that's a better use of my time.

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.

I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.

One faces the future with one's past.

When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.

I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course, but it also pulls people away from a lot of trivial anxieties and past and future concerns and gratuitous preoccupations that we have, and refocuses us in a very intense way.

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.