Past Quotes - Page 38

If the house is to be set in the order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past

The bottom line is that you are the one who is creating your life the way it is. The life you currently live is the result of all your past thoughts and actions. You are in charge of your current thoughts and your present feelings.

If you want to understand the causes that existed in the past, look at the results as they are manifested in the present. And if you want to understand what results will be manifested in the future, look at the causes that exist in the present.

Love doesn't keep a score of wrongs. Love doesn't bring up past failures. (1 Cor 13:5)

You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.

I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past. In silence you can’t hide anything … as you can in words.

We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return...

The past is a place you can learn from, not a place you want to live.

For two minutes a day, think of one positive experience that's occurred during the past 24 hours. Bullet point each detail you can remember. It works, because the brain can't tell the difference between visualization and actual experience. So you've just doubled the most meaningful experience in your brain.

You can't pick when you're touched. You can't pick the time. It just is. It's the reality. What it is, is. I can't change the past. I can only deal with the present and the future.

I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past

God is more powerful than anybody's past, no matter how wretched. He can make us forget - not by erasing the memory but by taking the sting and paralyzing effect out of it

...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously.

When we look at these types of things it echoes to lessons we haven't learned from the past. We still don't see Rome as a negative thing; we glorify the Roman Empire. It was a fascist state under the control of an incredibly authoritarian militant pre-emptive striking genocidal regime.

Imagine a future where we won't be living in the past. I'd be flipping birds like a chicken breast on a spatula.

Your experiences are not limited to what you have created in the past

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.

We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely

The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.

Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.

Being Doctor Who, I used to look at the clock and know at half past four we were going to stop rehearsing - and that was a sad moment for me because I wanted to stay in this beautiful, unreal world.

At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians have no cultural power. We're still placed in the past. So we're either in the past or we're only viewed through casinos.