Past Quotes
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To make every little thing special is to grant a magical quality to your life. Once your life becomes charmed in such a way, whatever blocks you may have experienced in the past melt in the light of that inner energy pouring from your heart. From a businessman's point of view, this is beautiful, for everything you touch turns to gold. Further, it helps you to believe in yourself. In seeing worth all around, you make your every act an affirmation of your strength.
Stuart Wilde
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You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it.
Martina Navratilova
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I don't ever look past anyone or think that they're not worthy. Of course they're worthy, they're warriors.
Urijah Christopher Faber
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Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.
Emma Thompson
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Doubting things go ill often hurts more Than to be sure they do; for certainties Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing, The remedy then born.
William Shakespeare
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You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.
John Joseph Lydon
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I feel the fear touches on something deeper. A sense perhaps of, "My life is speeding past me and I can't get a handle on it."
Sandra Cisneros
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For progressive people the present is the beginning of the future. For conservative people the present is the end of the past.
Karl Mannheim
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To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten.
Marianne Williamson
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Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.
Seneca the Younger
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The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.
Susanna Kearsley
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The whole past and the whole world are alive in my heart, and I shall do my part to communicate their presence to my readers.
George Sarton
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In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism.
Nursultan Nazarbayev
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Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. In the past, whenever I had fallen short in almost any undertaking, it was seldom because I had tried and failed. It was because I had let fear of failure stop me from trying at all.
Arthur Gordon Webster
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The past is a kind of future that has already happened.
Bruce Sterling
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The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.
William Gibson
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The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.
Norbert Wiener
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The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.
Edwin Lefevre
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People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past.
Nicholas Sparks
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People want to be famous, they want to be loved, they want to be accepted. They want to push aside their past and the things that have been embarrassing to them.
Sandra Bernhard
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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
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I would like the film to make people think about the place of women in the world - the advances and setbacks that they have experienced these past years in terms of their freedom.
Catherine Corsini
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The future has a lot to do with the past.
Dwight Yoakam
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Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.
Sarah Dessen