Past Quotes - Page 20

Don't worry about the past and don't try to figure out the future

Garrison Keillor

It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel...

Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely.

The influence of the future on the past," said Morel enthusiastically, almost inaudibly.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

And in the eveningAfter the fire and the lightOne thing is certain: Nothing can hold back the lightTime is relentlessAnd as the past disappearsWe're on the verge of all things new

As I faced each tragedy in my life, I learned to reach into the depth of my soul for strength and determination. Through this healing process, I discovered perseverance and resilience. I could not go into the past and use White-Out to erase any events; instead, I had to find a way to use my pain to help me heal and grow. I had to stare darkness in the face and accept that I could not change the past, but I could build a better future.

Everything God does—past, present, or future, whether in grace or in judgment—is to reveal His glory.

Dreams are things from the past. They aren't from the future. That wasn't you imprisoned there. You imprison your dreams. You understand?Yeah, I'd say. But I wasn't convinced.

Haruki Murakami

A lady with a past has nothing to lose. But a woman with a future can't be too careful.

Jayne Ann Krentz

All that time I'd spent worrying about why I'm here and how I'm supposed to live had kept me from remembering that Jeremy Pratt will never be back. His people will never have him again. He is Jeremy Pratt who died and stayed dead and will never get a second chance. And even though that hand that spent the last five years holding hers was somehow doing it again, it wasn't Jeremy Pratt's anyone

John Corey Whaley

Tomorrow's fast becoming our Past.

Herbern Lebumfacil

Omg! To the past.Omg! To the present. Omg! To the future. It's life. Don't give up!

Your past is your experiences and your teacher as well, and your future is your hope, your dream and your fate, while the present is your moment of learning from past and preparation for the future.

Although one may direct the future or past through the onerous linkages of temporal cause and effect, riding the breaking waves of the present and never once overstepping it, the better way is to go there and do it yourself.

Mary-Jean Harris

I would like to hear your life as you heard it, coming at you, instead of hearing it as I do, a sober sound of expectations reduced, desires blunted, hopes deferred or abandoned, chances lost, defeats accepted, griefs borne. I don't find your life uninteresting, as Rodman does. I would like to hear it as it sounded while it was passing. Having no future of my own, why shouldn't I look forward to yours.

Wallace Stegner

Everyone was always in such a rush to shoot forward that they never took the time to look back. Which was a mistake. If you wanted to avoid snags, kinks, knots, and cuts, you had to "keep your mind on your line," as the saying went.

Orson Scott Card

Today you are no longer a victor nor victim of the past and future, today is completely independent, there are no restrictions; except for the ones you place upon yourself.

I saw this moment as attached by threads to eternity and woven between all the other braided moments of my past and my future.

We don’t escape our pasts, you know,” Madd said. He sounded defeated. “Never. We can never escape what we are.” “Maybe not. But I think we can escape what other people try to make of us. We can decide our fate for ourselves.

NOEL: You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind.

Hillary DePiano

Past is a picture that has been viewed already, and there's nothing more to learn from it, so we need to stop looking at the same picture again and again and start making a better picture for the future, so that when someday we look back the picture's made by us, instead of regretting we cherish it.

Alamvusha

Today can be better than the worse of yesterdays, but tomorrow can never replace the best of yesterdays.

Anthony Liccione

Tomorrow can take me,” he said. “I don’t need today anyway.

Shannon A. Thompson

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

Sam was the only member of the party who had not been over the river before. He had a strange feeling as the slow gurgling stream slipped by: his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.

Don't let the lies of yesterday hamper the promises of tomorrow

To horses, everyday is a new day to survive. It's a natural instinct. They don't think of the past or the future, only the present. So in terms of trying to teach your horse or build a special bond, patience is the key to every stall's door.

Sheikha Hissa Hamdan Al Maktoum

The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I knelt in front of life, folded my hands and prayed for some more time; there couldn't be any. My heart bled and so did my tearful eyes.Time, they say, flies, but I saw it slowly passing by taking each of my tardy breaths with it as it walked out of my life...

it is all clearer now than it was then. Rhea would say it is the vivid fabrications of an ageing mind. More likely, though, it is the clarity that comes from ageing - from the natural process of releasing the mind from imagined futures, and allow the present and paste to take their rightful place at the centre of our attention. The past is palpable to Sheldon now, in the way the future is to the young. It is either a brief curse or a gift before oblivion.

Derek B. Miller

Everyone says that you should live like there is no tomorrow, but I think it’s even more important to live like there is no yesterday. Your future means so much more than your past.

The past was dwindling, like something shrinking to a speck in the rear-view mirror, and the future was shining through the windscreen, demanding her full attention.

Learn from the past, log the lessons from the past, butleave the past!

Elizabeth George

Sooner or later, the future always circles back to the past.

The past must be let go before the future can be grasped.

I think of an old sermon my grandfather quoted from time to time— something about not looking back when you’re plowing a field, but instead finding a mark in the distance and focusing on that. Otherwise, the rows won’t come out straight.

Remembering to forget the past allows you freedom from a past that holds back your Christian growth.

Elizabeth George

Life is made of the past, present and the future. We're shaped by our past, and we're shaping our future with our present.

Past experience doesn't go away, so the secret is to accept, embrace and learn from it. However the key to the secret, is to keep it at bay and be open minded about the future from the second after the experience and never let the experience be the bar or commission of anything thereafter.

Photography is never real, it’s merely one of many ways of telling the truth.

John Thai

Past shouldn't always be treasured, becausePresent and Future become trashed.

Bradley B. Dalina

Every struggle in your past has shaped you into the person you are today. Take God's hand and step into your future without fear.

Great beauty and youth capture our attention, excite a deep pleasure; however, why shouldn't our souls gaze at a countenance over which the years have passed? Isn't there a story there, one unknown, full of pain or beauty, which pours its reflection into the features, a story we can read with some compassion or at least get a slight hint of its meaning? The young point toward the future; the old tell of a past.

Adalbert Stifter

Every adult grew from a kid who beat the odds. But at different times, in different places, the odds have been appallingly steep.

Shadows go in front of you, leading into your future, and trail behind you, leaving a part of you in the past. They are clearest when we are in the light, and disappear when we lose ourselves in darkness.

Never carry the baggage of your past relationships on the honeymoon of your future relationships.

As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past.

They say that when people still rode on vehicles powered by oil, they could go anywhere they wanted.

Yoshiyuki Sadamoto

My house says to me, "Do not leave me, for here dwells your past."And the road says to me, "Come and follow me, for I am your future."And I say to both my house and the road, "I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in my staying; and if I go there is a staying in my going. Only love and death will change all things.

Don't ask about my past. And never expect a future.

I would like to think she turns around and goes home and does one thing differently that day because of what she has imagined, and again the day after that, and the day after that.

The mind would rather fret about the future or pine over the past — so the mind can cling to its own illusion of control. But the current moment? It cannot be controlled. And what a mind can’t control, it tends to discount. Brush past ... over. It’s the battle plan of the enemy of the soul — to keep us blind to this current moment, the one we can’t control, to keep us blind to Him, the One who controls everything.

Our future paths are defined by how we turned and walked the road in the past.

Kat Lahr

I read to know the past, I write to express my love for the future.

Debasish Mridha

And so, it is always the case that the past is irreparably land-locked, and the future has yet to land. And here we are, living out our lives on the precariously thin line which separates the two.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Nothing can do with PAST, but if you seriously thinking some good thing at PRESENT, then you can achieve anything in FUTURE.

sivaprakash Sidhu

I do not want to recollect. I should be afraid of preventing the future and of allowing the past to encroach on me. It is out of the utter forgetfulness of yesterday that I create every new hour's freshness. It is never enough for me to have been happy. I do not believe in dead things and cannot distinguish between being no more and never having been.

Happiness is neither in the past, nor in the future. It is here right now, in the present.

Winners learn from the past, live in the present, and lead into the future.

We incessantly vacillate between what’s behind us and what’s before us depending on the current barometer of our courage and the ambivalent nature of our vision.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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