Past Quotes - Page 12

Love isn't love until it's past.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

Jesus Christ has bought us with His blood, but, alas, He has not had His money's worth! He paid for ALL, and He has had but a fragment of our energy, time and earnings. By an act of consecration, let us ask Him to forgive the robbery of the past, and let us profess our desire to be henceforth utterly and only for Him- His slaves, owning no master other than Himself.

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.

An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.

If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future . . . and apply yourself to living the life that you are living-that is to say, the present-you can live all the time that remains to you until your death in calm, benevolence, and serenity.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

Good friends we have had, oh good friends we've lost along the way In this bright future you can't forget your past So dry your tears I say.

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

Hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future.

The Past is dead, and has no resurrection; but the Future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us even in anticipation. The Past is, in many things, the foe of mankind; the Future is, in all things, our friend. In the Past is no hope; The Future is both hope and fruition. The Past is the text-book of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.

Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.

The past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of our present conceptions. The present itself vanishes as soon as we try to grasp it. So why bother with attempting to establish an illusion of solid ground?

Professional wrestling is in my blood. I may have second guessed it in the past, but I know it now.

I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past.

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

When a big change occurs in your life it forces you to change direction. Sometimes the new path may not be easy, but you can be absolutely certain that there is magnificence for you on the new path. You can be absolutely certain that the new path contains things that you could not have experienced otherwise. When we look back at a negative event that occurred in the past, we often see how in fact it transformed our life. We see how that event directed us toward a life that we would not change for anything.

Do not be content with the old anointing. It is essential to a more holy and happy life...that you seek to be anointed with new oil. Do not be satisfied with past experiences. [...] Seek to have a new revelation of Christ to your soul. Seek the renewed application of His precious blood to your conscience. Oh, seek the fresh oil!

We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.