Quotes on Past

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those who have not first admitted its claims up on them, and then tried with all their strength to meet that claim, and fairly and squarely faced the fact of their failure.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.

For I love the empress of my soul. I love and I cannot but love. You yourself see the whole of me. I shall fly to her, fall down before her: you were right to walk past me.. farewell and forget your victim, never trouble yourself more!

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past reason hated

It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

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.