Past Quotes

You have shared your secret. I think you will find it to be an unburdening in many other ways. You have very considerable natural advantages. You have nothing to fear from life. A day will come when these recent unhappy years may seem no more than that cloud-stain over there upon Chesil Bank. You shall stand in sunlight—and smile at your own past sorrows.

~ John Fowles

When your journey to success gets extremely tough, use your past accomplishments as your motivation to keep pushing forward. You did it in the past, and you can also do it again in the present, and in the future.

~ Hafiz

Don’t let your past define you, let it mold you into the person you want to be

~ Blake Mays

... the past was what we carried with us, threaded to the future, and we decided whether to keep it close or let it go.

~ Alice Hoffman

The shutter of the photographer's camera makes that repeated mechanical sound. That unlocking and locking of the doors of light to send momentary images of the present into the light trap of the past.

~ Simon Mawer

... a man always revealed his own inner story in his actions and expressions. A man's past deeds foretold his future and allowed anyone with half a brain to divine the path he would take.

~ Alice Hoffman

You can't let the past ruin your future, I changed over in my mind.

~ Maria V. Snyder

When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind - at least that part of it that we can reach - of the ruins of past thinking, before building our palace of dharma which will one day reach the sky.

~ Christmas Humphreys

There comes a time in your life, when you are left with too many yesterdays and very less tomorrows. When you can look back and relive all the golden moments of your life. You would laugh thinking about your graduation day, or the teacher who changed your life, or how you met your soulmate. But then, you look ahead and you would realize that there is no future – no tomorrow to look forward to, and nothing to plan. Then what would you do? How would you go on and live a future that doesn't exist?

~ Bhavya Kaushik

Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years

~ Fm-2030

You can't let your past write the future

~ Janny Wurts

your Life is cover by only one word 'IS', everything else is Just Unnecessary Happening By Your Mind.

~ Sushil Singh

There is no mystery to happiness.Unhappy men are all alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling spark of love put out by scorn- or worse, indifference- cleaves to them, or they to it, and so they live each day within a shroud of yesterdays. The happy man does not look back. He doesn't look ahead. He lives in the present. But there's the rub. The present can never deliver one thing: meaning. The ways of happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man need only live in the moment; he need only live for the moment. But if he wants meaning- the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life- a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. Thus nature dangles happiness and meaning before us all, insisting only that we choose between them. For myself, I have always chosen meaning.

~ Jed Rubenfeld

A man cannot fully embrace his future…until he first releases his past

~ Blake L. Higginbotham

Why ever long for something from the past when the future brings things that are so much better?

~ Avery Williams

There is no future in the past and there is no real hope in the future, only regrets, worries, plans and aim for the best.

~ Auliq Ice

If you have one foot in the past and one foot in the future, you're pissing on the present.

~ Malachy Mccourt

We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future.

~ Frederic W. Maitland

Every morning we get a chance to be different. A chance to change. A chance to be better. Your past is your past. Leave it there. Get on with the future part, honey

~ Nicole Williams

...Then a man turnedAnd said to me: Although I love the past, the dark of it,The weight of it teaching us nothing, the loss of it, the allOf it asking for nothing, I will love the twenty-first century more...

~ Mark Strand

Past, I am letting you go; future, I will see you tomorrow; present, I love you, live in you, use you and never let you go.

~ Debasish Mridha

We incessantly vacillate between what’s behind us and what’s before us depending on the current barometer of our courage and the ambivalent nature of our vision.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Winners learn from the past, live in the present, and lead into the future.

~ Orrin Woodward

I do not want to recollect. I should be afraid of preventing the future and of allowing the past to encroach on me. It is out of the utter forgetfulness of yesterday that I create every new hour's freshness. It is never enough for me to have been happy. I do not believe in dead things and cannot distinguish between being no more and never having been.

~ André Gide

Happiness is neither in the past, nor in the future. It is here right now, in the present.

~ Manoj Arora

Nothing can do with PAST, but if you seriously thinking some good thing at PRESENT, then you can achieve anything in FUTURE.

~ Sivaprakash Sidhu

And so, it is always the case that the past is irreparably land-locked, and the future has yet to land. And here we are, living out our lives on the precariously thin line which separates the two.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I read to know the past, I write to express my love for the future.

~ Debasish Mridha

Our future paths are defined by how we turned and walked the road in the past.

~ Kat Lahr

The mind would rather fret about the future or pine over the past — so the mind can cling to its own illusion of control. But the current moment? It cannot be controlled. And what a mind can’t control, it tends to discount. Brush past ... over. It’s the battle plan of the enemy of the soul — to keep us blind to this current moment, the one we can’t control, to keep us blind to Him, the One who controls everything.

~ Ann Voskamp

I would like to think she turns around and goes home and does one thing differently that day because of what she has imagined, and again the day after that, and the day after that.

~ Emmi Itäranta

Don't ask about my past. And never expect a future.

~ Colleen Hoover

My house says to me, Do not leave me, for here dwells your past.And the road says to me, Come and follow me, for I am your future.And I say to both my house and the road, I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in my staying; and if I go there is a staying in my going. Only love and death will change all things.

~ Kahlil Gibran

They say that when people still rode on vehicles powered by oil, they could go anywhere they wanted.

~ Yoshiyuki Sadamoto

As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past.

~ Marcel Proust

Never carry the baggage of your past relationships on the honeymoon of your future relationships.

~ Faraaz Kazi

Every adult grew from a kid who beat the odds. But at different times, in different places, the odds have been appallingly steep.

~ M.r. Carey

Shadows go in front of you, leading into your future, and trail behind you, leaving a part of you in the past. They are clearest when we are in the light, and disappear when we lose ourselves in darkness.

~ Kiersten White

Great beauty and youth capture our attention, excite a deep pleasure; however, why shouldn't our souls gaze at a countenance over which the years have passed? Isn't there a story there, one unknown, full of pain or beauty, which pours its reflection into the features, a story we can read with some compassion or at least get a slight hint of its meaning? The young point toward the future; the old tell of a past.

~ Adalbert Stifter

Every struggle in your past has shaped you into the person you are today. Take God's hand and step into your future without fear.

~ Surgeo Bell