Past Quotes

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.

Rejection is a hard pill to swallow but as soon as you get past the lump in your throat you’ll be able to breathe again.

The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.

Past! What a painful place it is.

I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

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

The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.