My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted...

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.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

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,...

Yesterday is history,tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift… that’s why they call it present

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

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.

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

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...

Young children have no past. The old have no future. The rest are too busy with present. This time-tripod holds up the world. You ignore the importance of this interdependence of the three, the world...

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

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...

She’d cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn’t feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just … empty. It felt like she was...

The future is now! Don’t make that second pass you into regrets.

Strike a match, ignite my past.

Looking at his stats — and what he’s done in the past with the world juniors — he’s definitely having a good year.

In the past, it was always … maybe in three or four years you’ll be a guy that is competitive. People expect you to be competitive your first year out now. Some of the older...

Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm...

Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It...

We had our thing. It is a really good memory but now we’re older. Things change.

Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That’s why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.

Even though I knew, deep down, what she was trying to do, I couldn’t hate her. Even when she hurt me, I forgave her.

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.

I never stopped loving her,” he said. “I couldn’t let her go. Once the past gets you in its clutches, well, you’ve got to want to fight to be released. I never did. That was...

We don’t run many plays for her at all, which is different than we had in the past. But the grand scheme was to make everybody feel important. So her minutes have gone down, her...

Why are we learning about the past, when this is History?

Even though we lost a lot we still got some people who can play. We’ve proven that in the past and we’ve corrected our mistakes from last week and I think we’re going to have...

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

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...

The bank probably felt the dollar had gained enough in the past days, and it didn’t want to put more pressure in the market.

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

I had begun to see the past like this: there is a line; you can draw it yourself, or sometimes it gets drawn for you; either way, there it is, your past, a collection of...

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of...

He had so examined his past that he could no longer look at it with enough detachment to tell what was true and what wasn’t,

Over the past five years, the president has made the right call over and over again. This is one time. Nobody wants to come to a giant battle over this. We want homeland security. He...

Probably I’m changing my thinking about this in the past two or three years,

One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past...

Her and I, we passed each other, and now she’s in my past. That’s one present I’d like to unwrap in the future.

The age of lost innocence varies for each person. Some lose it when they learn that their childhood fantasies are merely myth, while others lose theirs due to trauma. As adults, we often look down...

Still the dream persists, suppressed but always there, that somehow by some miraculous effort of the heart what was done could be undone. What form would such atonement take that would turn back time and...

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

It isn’t the great big pleasures that count the most; it’s making a great deal out of the little ones–I’ve discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now....

I was impressed all my life. Because of the Montreal Canadiens’ past, it means a lot because it was a team I cherished as a kid. It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens...

We’ve noted over the past year that 401(k) participants’ reaction to the bear market has been best characterized as

It’s been there in the past. We just have to put all the pieces together.

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

I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired.

He’s probably the best defensive player the world’s seen over the past 20 years.