Past Quotes - Page 6

The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.

The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the consciousness remains one and self luminous. It neither rises nor sets. The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.

Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is. We exist in time.

Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of the present moment.

If you don't make peace with your past it will keep showing up in your present.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Everything you have done and been through is valuable and important. In order to be who you are, to know what you know, to be where you are in this moment, you needed to go through what you went through.

I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you.

People do not come into therapy to change their past but their future.

Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past." "He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.

Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.

We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.

I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.

Don't let the sadness from the past and fear of the future ruin the happiness of the present.

Immorality is just as bad now as it was in the past. The difference is that now we flaunt it. It used to be done in secret, but now it is done in the open.

You have only one life and it will soon be past, and only what's done for Christ will last.

I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.

If the devil starts bringing up your past it's because he's running out of new material!

Definitely I know that every negative condition of the past is cleared away from my consciousness. I no longer think about it, see it, or believe in it. Nor do I believe that it has any effect whatsoever in my experience. Yesterday is not, tomorrow is not, but today, bright with hope and filled with promise, is mine. Today I live.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

Leave aside your regrets of the past and anxieties of the future And focus intelligently on the present. This is the best way of ensuring a positive future.