Past Quotes - Page 9

What is past is past. You can do nothing about yesterday and last month and the failures of last year, but you can do everything toward making tomorrow and the rest of your life what you always dreamed it could be.

When we are upset, it’s easy to blame others. However, the true cause of our feelings is within us. For example, imagine yourself as a glass of water. Now, imagine past negative experiences as sediment at the bottom of your glass. Next, think of others as spoons. When one stirs, the sediment clouds your water. It may appear that the spoon caused the water to cloud – but if there were no sediment, the water would remain clear no matter what. The key, then, is to identify our sediment and actively work to remove it.

Humans can't live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the past. So it's a veil of tears, man. I don't know anything that's going to benefit me now, except love. I just need an overwhelming amount of love. And a nap. Mostly a nap.

If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.

Pasta doesn't make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

The age of miracles has not past. The Miracle Worker is still ALIVE. His name is Jesus Christ!

Act with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past and fears of the future.

We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.

What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.

By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

That wall is your mind playing tricks on you. You just need to say, 'One more step, I can do this. I have more in me.' You'll be so proud of yourself once you push yourself past your threshold.

For the authentic revolutionary conservative, what really counts is to be faithful not to past forms and institutions, but rather to principles of which such forms and institutions have been particular expressions, adequate for a specific period of time and in a specific geographical area.

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

There comes a time in every life when the past recedes and the future opens. It's that moment when you turn to face the unknown. Some will turn back to what they already know. Some will walk straight ahead into uncertainty. I can't tell you which one is right. But I can tell you which one is more fun.

Who doesn’t respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future

I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be perfection. But I do believe that what I was able to attain came to be because we put behind us (no matter how slowly) the dogmas of the past: to discover the truth of today; and perhaps the greatness of tomorrow.

The movement of the waves, of winds, of the earth is ever in the same lasting harmony. We do not stand on the beach and inquire of the ocean what was its movement of the past and what will be its movement of the future. We realize that the movement peculiar to its nature is eternal to its nature. The dancer of the future will be one whose body and soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of that soul will have become the movement of the body.

He does not ask much of us, merely a thought of Him from time to time, a little act of adoration, sometimes to ask for His grace, sometimes to offer Him your sufferings, at other times to thank Him for the graces, past and present, He has bestowed on you, in the midst of your troubles to take solace in Him as often as you can. Lift up your heart to Him during your meals and in company; the least little remembrance will always be the most pleasing to Him. One need not cry out very loudly; He is nearer to us than we think.

Sometimes the people with the worst past, create the best future