Past Quotes

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future,and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

When all the noise is gone, there is so much to hear, to see, to appreciate. Detoxifying from a past that does not fit now.

Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It’s over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don’t.

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

Never look back, reminising on yesterday, smile for the future, tomorrow’s a new day.

The past grew a beast in me so I set it free.

I don’t want any special powers. I’m powerless. I wouldn’t want to see into the future, I wouldn’t want to know what anyone was thinking, ever! And I don’t want to relive my past.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

I am not ashamed of anything – not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.

Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday..