Past Quotes

The past is like a handful of dust. It filters through your fingers, disappearing little by little. I wish, for one day, I could go back. In another life, I would do things differently.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses his past and is dead for the future.

Don’t be so bitter about a bad experience from your past that you miss the opportunities in front of you.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

I’m not good at future planning. I don’t plan at all. I don’t know what I’m doing tomorrow. I don’t have a day planner and I don’t have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.

The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.

The fading blue of yesterdays sky is reminding me of the hopeless love I told the moon about you.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.

Man ruins is present while worrying about his future – – but weeps in the future by recalling his past.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.