Best 140 Living In The Past Quotes

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Living In The Past Quotes

1. “A medicine cat has no time for doubt. Put your energy into today and stop worrying about the past.” ― Erin Hunter

2. “After you learn from your past, let go of it.” — Juli J. McFarland

3. “As I’d found time and again throughout my life—and would continue to find—you do what you can, say your prayers, and hope for the best.” -Dick Van Dyke

4. “Be compassionate with yourself and let go of judgment about past choices.” — Lauren E. Sullivan

5. “Bitterness and blame only imprison us and prevent us from moving forward.” ― Miquel Reina

6. “Bring the past only if only you are going to build from it.” — Domenico Cieri Estrada

7. “By faith you must learn from your past, build upon your past, and do better than you did in the past.” — Jerry Falwell

8. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha

9. “Don’t torture yourself over the past. Use it as a teacher. Whatever happened to you in the past, has only prepared you for now.” – Robert Tew

10. “Dwelling on the past only blinds you to the future.” — Andrew Boyd

11. “Even a spineless anthropod sheds what’s no longer useful and leaves it behind them. Are you not greater than they?” -Jason Versey

12. “Even if you time travel your past, it can’t be changed, likewise, you can’t possibly change your future, it is always the present which matters.” ― Pushpa Rana

13. “Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.” ― William Ralph Inge

14. “Every relationship must have a starting point so that past errors may remain in the past.” ― Mary Lydon Simonsen

15. “Everyone has a past, but that’s just it–it’s in the past. You can learn from it, but you can’t change it.” ― Nicholas Sparks

16. “Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.” – Jodi Picoult

17. “Everything you think you know or feel is based on an attachment to the past.” – Akiroq Brost

18. “Examination of our past is never time-wasting. Reverberations from the past provide learning rubrics for living today.” -Kilroy J. Oldster

19. “From one moment to another memory steps back to rediscover the past.” ― Munia Khan

20. “Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past.” ― Zig Ziglar

21. “History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past.” – Arundhati Roy

22. “How can we prepare for the future if we won’t acknowledge the past?” – N.K. Jemisin

23. “I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come before us.” -Charlie Gonzalez

24. “I can’t go back to yesterday – because I was a different person then.” – Lewis Carroll

25. “I can’t. You can’t rewrite the past.” ― Jay Asher

26. “I don’t think much about guys from the past. I’m glad I knew them, but there’s a reason they didn’t make it into my future.” ― Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

27. “I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment.” – Maya Angelou

28. “I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.” ― Alan Wilson Watts

29. “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” – Thomas Jefferson

30. “I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.” — Dwayne Johnson

31. “I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth

32. “I realise there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.” – Jeffrey McDaniel

33. “I saw this was the way of the future, to leave the past behind as if it were a dream.” ― Alice Hoffman

34. “I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.” -Margaret Atwood

35. “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. ” — Anthony Robbins

36. “If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.” – Nicholas Sparks

37. “If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.” – Mercedes Lackey

38. “If we wish to see where our future is headed, all we need to do is have a look at our past and that will tell us all the answers.” – Anthony T. Hincks

39. “If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.” – Les Brown

40. “If you do not cultivate your life’s environment, you will not captivate the worlds enlightenment.” – Ricky Maye

41. “If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now.” -Paulo Coelho

42. “If you live your life to the fullest each day, the past won’t matter, and the future will take care of itself.” — Judd Biasiotto

43. “If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.” – Roy T. Bennett

44. “Inspire yourself with inspiration to let go of the past, inspire yourself with inspiration to move forward from what you’ve once had.” — Black Barbie

45. “It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.” – Jonathan Safran Foer

46. “It was no good to look back, to apologize for what had happened, or to wonder what could have been different.” – Lily Blake

47. “It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel…” – Tad Williams

48. “Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn’t.” – Becca Fitzpatrick

49. “Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.” – Valery Satterwhite

50. “Learn form the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.” — Denis Waitley

51. “Learn from the past, but do not stay there.” — Izell Kirkpatrick

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52. “Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.” – Soren Kierkegaard

53. “Life’s all about balance. To move on in life you have to strike a balance between your past, present, and your future; you may either be jerked off or left behind.” ― Richmond Akhigbe

54. “Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day’s work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.” ― William Osler

55. “Living is a process of developing oneself. Without experiencing pain from disconcerting periods of our lives, we would be different person, perhaps a lesser person.” -Kilroy J. Oldster

56. “Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.” – Denis Waitley

57. “Love can only be true and free when you are fully healed from painful past and any form of brokenness.” ― Kemi Sogunle

58. “Love your past for the lessons it has given you, but don’t hover there. Turn and greet your future by facing forward.” — Beverly M. Breakey

59. “My hope comes in knowing that though the past cannot be erased, it can be dealt with, and lived with, and then left behind.” — Deborah Roberts

60. “My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.” -Steve Maraboli

61. “My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment…What hurt me in the past has actually made me better equipped to face the present.” -Steve Goodier

62. “No man is rich enough to buy back his past.” ― Oscar Wilde

63. “No matter what happened to you in your past, you are not your past, you are the resources and the capabilities you glean from it. And that is the basis for all change.” — Jordan Belfort

64. “Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.” – Winston S. Churchill

65. “One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.” ― Golda Meir

66. “One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.” – Gaston Bachelard

67. “One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good.” – Gretchen Rubin

68. “Our past may explain why we’re suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.” -Joyce Meyer

69. “People from the past have a tendency to walk back into the present and run over the future.” ― Anthony Liccione

70. “People tend to look on the beliefs of the past as being primitive and unintelligent, yet we are seeing more truth in the past every day.” – Jennifer L

71. “Provide for her Future—if you can!—That’s my motto!—But a man’s just a plain bum who doesn’t provide for his own Past!” ― Eleanor Hallowell Abbot

72. “Prying into the past won’t get us anywhere. The problem lies in the future, or to be more accurate, in the present.” — Mitsubishi Keizai Kenkyūjo

73. “Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.” – Cormac McCarthy

74. “Sometimes in order to be happy in the present moment you have to be willing to give up all hope for a better past.” — Robert Holden

75. “Study the past if you would divine the future.” — Confucius

76. “The biggest lessons i learned were probably the times where I had the biggest setbacks and the biggest challenges – when I had the biggest jumps forward and lessons learned.” -Michelle Kwan

77. “The distance to the corner shops of childhood becomes unfathomable, immeasurable; the candy bars have changed. And change has changed.” – Ilse Aichinger

78. “The fact that you made worse decisions in the past shouldn’t be an excuse to make bad decisions in the present.” ― Sanhita Baruah

79. “The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.” – Philip Emeagwali

80. “The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated into a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.” — Spiro T. Agnew

81. “The mixture of pain and anger, from past experiences, are the most sincere colors to create new horizons on my canvas.” -Efrat Cybulkiewicz

82. “The one charm of the past is that it is the past.” ― Oscar Wilde

83. “The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.” – Shannon L. Alder

84. “The past beats inside me like a second heart.” -John Banville

85. “The past can’t hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.” ― Alan Moore

86. “The past does not define me, it ignites me. The past is not a piece of me, it has placed me” – Ricky Maye

87. “The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me – and I love to live life at full throttle.” — Janice Dickinson

88. “The past has no power over the present moment.” – Eckhart Tolle

89. “The past is a bucket of ashes.” ― Carl Sandburg

90. “The past is a demon that not even death can shake.” ― Steven Erikson

91. “The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.” ― Bill Cosby

92. “The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.” – Roy T. Bennett

93. “The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.” — Robert Plant

94. “The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.” – Thomas S. Monson

95. “The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.” – H.G. Wells

96. “The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You’ve got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.” ― Lauren Kate

97. “The past is never where you think you left it.” -Katherine Anne Porter

98. “The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.” ― Mignon McLaughlin

99. “The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.” ― Cyril Connolly

100. “The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness.” — Pierre Trudeau

101. “The past is your lessons learned.” -James Hauenstein

102. “The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.” ― Barbara Taylor Bradford

103. “The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask to be imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified.” – Paul Fussell

104. “The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.” ― Kiran Desai

105. “The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.” – Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai

106. “The wisest judgments take into account all your errors, all the mistakes of the past, and everything you have learned from them.” — Gerard I. Nierenberg

107. “There is a way to look at the past. Don’t hide from it. It will not catch you — if you don’t repeat it.” — Pearl Bailey

108. “This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.” -Lauren Oliver

109. “This year has been full of lessons learned and soul searching and realizing I’m an adult. It’s time to take responsibility and not take the easy way out.” -Nicole Richie

110. “Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.”― George Santayana

111. “Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach

112. “Today I am leading because yesterday I was reading.” ― Amit Kalantri

113. “Walk with me, memory to memory, the shared path, the mutual view. Walk with me. The past lies in wait. It is not behind. It seems to be in front. How else could it trip me as I start to run?” ― Jeanette Winterson

114. “We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” -Rick Warren

115. “We cannot change our past. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.” – Charles R. Swindoll

116. “We cannot change the past. We can only take action in the present and, therefore, change the future.” ― Ken Poirot

117. “We don’t have to be defined by the things we did or didn’t do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it’s a regret, maybe it’s not. It’s merely something that happened. Get over it.” ― Pittacus Lore

118. “We must accept the past for what it is – the past.” — Gerry Reid

119. “What a burden it must be to know all the terrible things you’ve done and supported it with arms unfit to carry it all.” – K. Weikel

120. “What you had yesterday is only memories; what you will have tomorrow is your dreams and what you will do today, let it be love.” – Santosh Kalwar

121. “Whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it.” ― Barack Obama

122. “When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.” – Clarice Lispector

123. “When life brings you full circle, pay attention. There’s a lesson there.” -Mandy Hale

124. “When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable.” — Martin Amis

125. “When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past, in turn, becomes uncertain” ― Mohsin Hamid

126. “When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

127. “When you accept things as they are, you allow yourself to make choices, that will help create the change you seek.” ― Patricia Dsouza

128. “Where you come from, what you look like, and what your past holds do not define you as an individual you are what you make yourself to be.” – Kat Von D

129. “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” – George Orwell

130. “Why ruin the present by talking about the past?” – Victor Robert Lee

131. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” – Bil Keane

132. “You can never plan the future by the past.” – Edmund Burke

133. “You cannot build an empire on a graveyard. The ghosts of the past will it down.” ― Shreya Naik

134. “You cannot harden your heart to the future just because of your past. You cannot use cruelty against yourself to justify cruelty to others.” ― Marie Lu

135. “You couldn’t erase the past. You couldn’t even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.” ― Ann Brashares

136. “You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.” ― Chuck Palahniuk

137. “You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.” -Jane Austen

138. “You see, The Law of Attraction is a matter of focusing upon today and letting go of the past.” — J. M. Edwards

139. “Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.” ― Sarah Dessen

140. “Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.” — Tony Campolo

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