Past Quotes - Page 2

In my end is my beginning.

The good old days were never that good believe me. The good new days are today and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The past is never completely lost khowever extensive the devastation. Your sorrows are the bricks and mortar of a magnificent temple. What you are today and what you will be tomorrow are because of what you have been.

Fear not for the future weep not for the past.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

There are two days about which nobody should ever worry and these are yesterday and tomorrow.

Robert Jones Burdette

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.

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

When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.

Anonymous

I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It's just that in this age of almost instantaneous communication we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved.

Looking repeatedly into the past you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life but rather with the phenomenon of memory.

Let the past drift away with the water.

Japanese saying

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead you never look back.

Not the power to remember but its very opposite the power to forget is a necessary condition for our existence.

You cannot step twice into the same river for other waters are continually flowing on.

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

Christina Rossetti

The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries rinsed of debris sweetened judiciously and served in small portions not very often.

May I forget what ought to be forgotten and recall unfailing all that ought to be recalled each kindly thing forgetting what might sting.

Maty Caroline Davies

Here's to the past. Thank God it's past!

Anonymous

One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life and that leap is the most difficult to make-to part with one's faith one's love when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.

The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.

It's but little good you'll go a-water-ing the last year's crop.

The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone or to recreate it.

Johnette Napolitano

Ne'er look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you.

I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.

The past is a funeral gone by.

The past is never dead-it is not even past.

William Faulkner

The past is the best way to suppose what may come.

We can never go back again that much is certain. The past is still too close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again and that sense of fear of furtive unrest... might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion as it had before.

Daphne du Maurier

Past: Our cradle not our prison and there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration not imitation for continuation not repetition.

Israel Zangwill

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forward.

Søren Kierkegaard

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

We live in the present we dream of the future but we learn eternal truths from the past.

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek

The past is the best prophet of the future.

Truth however bitter can be accepted and woven into a design for living.

Agatha Christie

The past will not tell us what we ought to do but... what we ought to avoid.

José Ortega y Gasset

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

Judgement comes from experience and great judgement comes from bad experience.

Robert Packwood

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

Alfred North Whitehead

When the past has taught us that we have more within us than we have ever used our prayer is a cry to the divine to come to us and fill us with its power.

Rudolph Steiner

Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.

Ellen Gilchrist

Ah tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past What is recalled by faded flowers Save that they did not last?

Here lies my past Goodbye I have kissed it Thank you kids I wouldn't have missed it.

Forget the past and live the present hour.

Sarah Knowles Bolton

Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles causes you to bump into people not going your way.

I demolish my bridges behind me ... then there is no choice but forward.

Firdtjof Nansen

There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.

Lillian Eichler Watson

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.

Sir James M. Barrie

Only sick music makes money today.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.

Socrates

Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better the present is worse than the past."

Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.

Gustave Flaubert

Oh this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is!

Catullus

This strange disease of modern life with its sick hurry its divided aims.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages.

Oh what times! Oh what standards!

Cicero

Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.

Hal Boyle

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