The events of your past are fixed. The meaning of your past is not. The influence of every experience in your life is determined by the meaning you assign to it. Assign a more useful...

Living in the past is like choosing to cling to a chronic illness.

A medicine cat has no time for doubt. Put your energy into today and stop worrying about the past.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present,...

And I think that’s when we’re at our best — when we support each other. Not when we cancel each other out for past mistakes, but when we help each other to grow, when we...

The past is a hotel. You can visit any time; enjoy the view. But you can’t live there. The cost is to high.

You can never forget the past unless you face up to it.

Your past success is a foundation into future success.

I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present.

She always used to say that the past is a relentless parasite in its quest, feeding off of the senses, looking for anything that will trigger a memory–forever there to complicate the present, forever there...

I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my mother’s mother. Your father’s mother’s mother’s mother. I hardly knew her. I didn’t have any interest in knowing...

Let your past failures prepare you for future victories.

There are times in every life when the past acquires a particular resonance, when we grow sensitive to sounds and voices normally beyond the range of hearing. The past shades into present always and everywhere,...

The Pac-10 obviously did pretty well against the SEC this past week, … Our players need to be aware of that and know that our league is nationally-known and when we go play places people...

… so in that moment all the flowers in our garden and in M. Swann’s park, and the water-lilies on the Vivonne and the good folk of the village and their little dwellings and the...

Sabemos que el pasado, el presente y el porvenir ya están, minucia por minucia, en la profética mente de Dios, en Su eternidad; lo extraño es que los hombres puedan mirar, indefinidamente, hacia atrás pero...

Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you’ll find an edge to cut you.

Our parents’ generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off. Even our national history is remembered in terms of the worst we did, not the best.

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

The past is a distant, receding coastline, and we are all in the same boat. Along the stern rail there is a line of telescopes; each brings the shore into focus at a given distance....

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

It is said that those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it. That’s not quite correct. We all forget history. The key is whether we have a way to go back to...

Let your strength from the pastprovide proof of your abilities to . . .conquer the difficulties of the present.

The past gives you no justice. Sentences are passed. But that doesn’t mean you get justice. You can stand there forever and rail and say, ‘Someone has to pay. I want what was taken from...

Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.

Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it.

Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor...

As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, we attack it, and we try...

Every choice is a loss. The past is not where you left it.

Don’t live in the past – you’ve already been there. And don’t live in the future, either. Tomorrow will be here soon enough. Live in this moment now – it is sacred and unrepeatable. This...

We have for the past year and undoubtedly will be for the next year, dealing with an electorate that is more alienated and more cynical than at any point in modern time.

Mayhap it was not wise to question God’s plans; mayhap he had been meant to live, to seek this justice, to serve some purpose. The past was the past. And the future…

Maybe you’ve gotten through something and when you did you thought, I am leaving that behind and will never return. And that’s a great way of thinking…for selfish jerks.If we actually care about people other...

I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona – this thing, this face, this person who writes this music… I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person...

I’ve spent the past couple of days in Washington, talking to people at the Federal Reserve and the [White House] Council of Economic Advisers, and this issue came up, … The consensus seems to be...

The gates of memory would roll open—old joys would stretch out their arms to them, old hopes and dreams would call to them, and they would stir beneath the burden that lay upon them, and...

The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information...

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

What may have happened in the past, it doesn’t matter. This is a different year and a new team that’s constructed a different way. Today, you saw what it is that we’re excited about.

I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with...

What to do with the past? There was so much of it.

In past years, guys were racing out the door trying to get out of here. Now it’s almost a shock that the season is over. We really believed we could take this thing all the...

Don’t be afraid of change. Change happens for a reason. Roll with it. It won’t be easy, but it will be worth it.

[…] nobody grows up. Everyone carries around all the selves that they have ever been, intact, waiting to be reactivated in moments of pain, of fear, of danger. Everything is retrievable, every shock, every hurt....

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all,...

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.

London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can...

To live meant feeding my former self to my current self.

…the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

I don’t want that boy to fall over for just a bird that forgot that her wings are broken.