Past Quotes

Love isn't love until it's past.

It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.

It's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only since it gave me pleasure or helped me grow psychologically. That is the only thing that interests me about yesterday. I don't believe in yesterday, by the way. You know I don't believe in yesterday. I am only interested in what I am doing now.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.

Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

Do not let the past disturb you, just leave everything in the Sacred Heart and begin again with joy.

To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, however persistent.

Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences. But if you have the same experiences as everyone else, you are unlikely to look in a different direction.

The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.

The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.

The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what's going on so they can do a lot more than they've done in the past

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.