A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.
André Maurois
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
T. S. Eliot
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 Dyer
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
The past is not a package one can lay away.
Emily Dickinson
Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw
Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.
Paul Eldridge
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.
Mignon McLaughlin
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
Jim Rohn
You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Leslie Poles Hartley
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Lesley P. Hartley
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
Marcel Pagnol
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
Simone Weil
May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future.
It’s not what’s happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it’s your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you’re going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.
Anthony Robbins
A good friend is a connection to life- a tie to the past,a road to the future,the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
Lois Wyse
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
Barbara De Angelis
The Past lies upon the Present like a giant’s dead body.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
Oscar Wilde
I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
Oscar Wilde
The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
Wendell Berry
Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
Friedrich Nietzsche
You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don’t think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.
Anthony Robbins
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 it will be worth remembering.
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
If you look back too much, you will soon be headed that way.
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia Woolf
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.
Doménico Cieri Estrada
A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows. Love can erase an awful past, love can be yours, you’ll see at last. To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you’d rather die. You hope you’ve found that special rose, ’cause you love and care for the one you chose.
Rob Cella
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Paul Boese
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
Golda Meir
One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past.
Man… cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I was so in the present moment the past was no longer part of me.
Laurel Hoodwrit
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
Jan Glidewell
God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.
Pliny the Elder
There is only one real tragedy in a woman’s life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
Oscar Wilde
We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
John Cage
Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one’s breath.
Eve Glicksman
There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not 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
What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now.
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company… a church… a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday 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. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our Attitudes.
Charles R. Swindoll