Past Quotes - Page 8

Do not live WITH what you had done...Live FOR what you have to do.

Then you think, is this a better world, closer to theone before you knew of wars—earth wars? Before you found that canary in its cagelaying, barely heaving. And you took it outside and said, Go Free! Go free!But it died there, right in your hands…like all of life.Is the ash in trees, babies, flowers, and visions of Godbetter than the visions themselves? Then you think,none of this is tangible or concrete. So you have another cigaretteand think about the (not one) but many ghosts you keep tucked away,under sheets, under beds, in notes, within other ghosts.

Derek Keck

I say, we live on, though I am wrong, this is what I say.In the past, present, future, we live on as if in one time.You can never stop the past from happening,and it has happened , and will continue to happen. This is the truth, I think I know, along withthe two other things I do know.I exist.I want to kiss you. And also this: each day, as we go,we will always be as young as we can be.

Derek Keck

Is the ash in trees, babies, flowers, and visions of Godbetter than the visions themselves? Then you think,none of this is tangible or concrete. So you have another cigaretteand think about the (not one) but many ghosts you keep tucked away,under sheets, under beds, in notes, within other ghosts.

Derek Keck

History is about the past. Yet it exists only in the present – the moment of its creation as history provides us with a narrative constructed after the events with which it is concerned. The narrative must then relate to the moment of its creation as much as its historical subject. History presents an historian with the task of producing a dialogue between the past and the present. But as these temporal co-ordinates cannot be fixed, history becomes a continuous interaction between the historian and the past. As such, history can be seen as a process of evaluation whereby the past is always coloured by the intellectual fashions and philosophical concerns of the present. This shifting perspective on the past is matched by the fluid status of the past itself.

Dana Arnold

The past isn’t always as beautiful as we paint it in our minds.

Laura Miller

Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date—one that you can’t see until she tells you she’s leaving, and then she’s gone.

Laura Miller

And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them.

Rose Tremain

But kind of like when you move something on a wall after it’s been there for a long time, and its place is bright but everything around it is faded—that’s how I feel about her. She wasn’t there very long, but when she left, everything around her memory sort of dimmed.

Laura Miller

Are we slaves of our pasts? or can we rise above it?

Hiba Fatima Ahmad

A part of me will probably always be waitin’ for her. And even when I get to the end of this life and she’s not there, I think I’ll still just wait. It’s the cruel reality of love, I think—that once you find it, it’s yours to carry. And even if you lose it and never find it back again, I think you still just keep on carrying it...and waitin’—long after the curtain closes.

Laura Miller

The truth is, Everyone was taken before, What hurts is that, sometimes they are imprisoned with their past.

Bradley B. Dalina

We’re all livin’ in the past...we’re really always eighty milliseconds behind life happenin’. ...that’s how long it takes our brains to comprehend what’s already taken place right in front of our eyes. So, I guess I’m not alone. Everyone’s livin’ in the past, to some extent. I’ve just become a prisoner of mine. ... I’ve become a prisoner—willingly. But then I guess you really can’t be called a prisoner if you willingly carry the chains.

Laura Miller

He who does not know his past cannot make the best of his present and future, for it is from the past that we learn.

Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan

One minute you are here and the next moment you are some place else, some time a long ago. That is the thing about your mind. Memories. Everything still exists in the folds of your brain; you may try to forget or honestly believe that you have forgotten but nothing is ever erased. Every memory is registered, good or bad does not matter. Sometimes you bring some out on purpose, sometimes some memory jumps at you on its own, shocking you, shaking you, making you realize how far you have come and at the same time proving to you that you can never really go far enough.

Arti Honrao

Today changes yesterday, and all the days to come. Today changes everything! The attitudes we carry in the present will change the way we view yesterday, and help us cope and make peace with all the moments behind us. It will also carry us forward in a brighter direction. The present moment is the most important, because it is what is happening right now.

Jenna Alatari

God's already let go of your past. He doesn't remember it. He doesn't count it against you. Now it's time for you to let go too.

Jody Hedlund

However, if Sir Launcelot of the Lake failed now and then in his behavior, who is there in the world shall say, 'I never fell into error'? And if he more than once offended, who is there shall have hardihood to say, 'I never committed offence'?

Howard Pyle

I had to start new, my ego told me that if past ever wanted me, I won't be calling it by that name.

Garima Mittal

We are past the end of things now, but I don't want to leave.

Richard Ford

Everyone has a past. I have mine, you have yours, and we have ours. No matter what it takes, I will prove to you that our past, no matter how hurtful, didn't ruin the future we could have. Only we can either make that happen or run from it. It's our decision this time, Amy. There are no outside influences that can push us one way or the other. There's only you and me and what could be.

Melissa Foster

Be simple, don't carry the baggage the past, open your hands, and let it go.

Debasish Mridha

Life is easier when you don't carry baggage from the past.

Debasish Mridha

I can't defeat anyone except my past and transcend to be better.

Debasish Mridha

I and the girl in the picture have ceased to be the same person. I am her outcome, the result of the life she once lived headlong; whereas she, if she can be said to exist at all, is composed only of what I remember. I have the better view - I can see her clearly, most of the time. But even if she knew enough to look, she can't see me at all.

Margaret Atwood

Rules for Living by Olivia Joules14) Sometimes you just have to go with the flow.and then the new one from Elsie, added at the bottom:15) Don't regret anything. Remember there wasn't anything else that could have happened, given who you were and the state of the world at that moment. The only thing you can change is the present, so learn from the past.

Helen Fielding

Do not allow past mistakes to shape your future.

Lorna Jackie Wilson

My mother once told me that holding on to the past is like walking around with a pebble in your shoe. You can still keep walking, keep moving forward, but that pebble is always there nagging at you, begging for your attention. After a while, that pebble is all you can feel. Sometimes, you just have to stop walking for a minute and get rid of it once and for all.

Ellery A. Kane

I have to tell you about these things from the past, because they are so important. The really important things usually lie in the distant past. And until you know about them, if you'll forgive my saying so, you will always to some extent a mere newcomer in my life.When I was at High School my favourite pastime was walking. Or rather, loitering. If we are talking about my adolescence, it's the more accurate word. Systematically, one by one, I explored all the districts of Pest. I relished the special atmosphere of every quarter and every street. Even now I can still find the same delight in houses that I did then. In this respect I've never grown up. Houses have so much to say to me. For me, they are what Nature used to be to the poets - or rather, what the poets thought of as Nature.But best of all I loved the Castle Hill District of Buda. I never tired of its ancient streets. Even in those days old things attracted me more than new ones. For me the deepest truth was found only in things suffused with the lives of many generations, which hold the past as permanently as mason Kelemen's wife buried in the high tower of Deva.

Antal Szerb

The past only has power over you when it's forgotten... ignored or repressed.

Mark Kendrick

Looking back at the past is like deleting what you have created in the present.

Kyumm

It's painful when the phantom of the past keeps on lingering you even you wanted to move on.

Kenneth C. Agudo

Take revenge, not by hurting someone, but by succeeding in life and helping those who were hurting you in the past.

Debasish Mridha

Memories haunting her,laughters chasing her,sweet talks stalking her.Everywhere she go,everything she does,it all leads back to him.

S G

We’re all blurry-eyed wanderers of time, and the unfortunance of it all is that we’d probably all go on to do great things if only we searched for what corrected and focused our vision instead of relying on our past – life’s grand kaleidoscope – to help us find our way forward.

A.J. Darkholme

If we are meant to be gifts to one another, living in the past negates the present we need to be.

T.F. Hodge

Take your past off life support.

Suzette R. Hinton

A person who can not deal with the past of others, can not deal with yours.

Davi Oliveira

This is when I became myself. The girl before this time is a shadow, like a soul who is practicing how not to become. She is the background, the hole in the fabric from which the real shape is cut.

Gabriel Weston

Eventually we all must return home, Praetor. We must embrace our past, no matter how bitter and dark." — Orion

Rick Riordan

How long the path may be depends for any man on where he stands today and his speed of travel. These are his past and present choosing, but the beginning of the way is here and now, and karma and rebirth are the means of treading it.

Christmas Humphreys

No lie, secret, betrayal, or mistake will remain concealed if you have a past.

Mande Chambers

Scars we have today are the constant reminder of our past. They are our auto energizer in our journey toward the future. No need to fear the scars.

Jean Nshimiyimana

It isn't as important to feel great about all the things we do. But how we feel toward the end when we look back at everything we've done.

Jessica Sorensen

Yes, memories do haunt. Memories of a happy past, in the expectation of a bleak future, in a sad present. - Anita

Nilesh Sakpal

I don’t enjoy surprises that compel me to renegotiate my relationship with the past.

Adib Khan

Stop trying to be a magician. The past won’t come back. It likes its safety in memory.

Adib Khan

I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.

Margaret Atwood

you can't change the past,Aunt Lou used to say.Oh, but I wanted to;that was the one thing I really wanted to do

Margaret Atwood

Forget your past,Use your pain;Accept that pain,And Achieve the gain.

Nitesh Nishad

You can't move beyond your past if you keep talking about it like it's your present.

Kemi Sogunle

Sometimes when you dig deep into the past, you shed uncontrollable tears.

Adeyemo Akin

Surely time past is gone by like a shadow.

E.R. Eddison

The past and the future are tools of the ego that render us finite. Without our judgments about the past (memories) and without our judgments about the future (expectations), there is only the Here and Now, the eternal present, the timeless time of the Oneness.

Human Angels

The facts about our past are powerless against the blood of Jesus and the Truth of His Word.

Joyce Meyer

The longer you live in the past, the less future you have to enjoy.

Robert Tew

A past will never die. It's always there and always present as long as your living breathing and able to remember.

Stephen Lozada

I was afraid to fall asleep, but staying awake also brought back painful memories. Memories I sometimes wish I could wash away, even though I am aware that they are an important part of what my life is; who I am now. I stayed up all night, anxiously waiting for daylight, so that I could fully return to my new life, to rediscover happiness I had known as a child, the joy that had stayed alive inside me even through times when being alive itself became a burden. These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past.

Ishmael Beah

You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can’t erase the history that produced them

Haruki Murakami

There's no future in stories...Stories are things of the past, things for museums.

David Mitchell

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