You can’t change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here.

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

The past must remain tangible only from a distance and in its truest form, not appearing anymore precious than it was, lest it make the present unbearable. Memories are only for reminding which must never be mistaken for the reliving.

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.

No matter how much you revisit the past, there’s nothing new to see.

This is as experienced as we’ve ever been. We’re not as deep as we have been in the past so we have to get in shape in a hurry.

We just couldn’t put anything past Perry. He’s been like that all year. … It was important for us to be determined and persistent because if you put enough pressure on any goalie, eventually the wall is going to crack.

I miss my old life

I exist only in the past.

The science of Yoga was assigned great prominence in the past by Indians.

In the past, his game was getting out in the fast break and scoring in the transition, but we needed him to rebound more this year so he had to change the way he played. And when most teams keyed in on him and he drew the double team, it was a different game for...

In the past, if a guy comes up to the net, you can cross-check him and push him out of the way. Now you can’t do anything. He just stands there. You have two of their guys there and two of our guys there and it’s really hard to see the puck. That’s the hardest...

But he’s someone that the networks, the studio, I think, in the past viewed a little dangerously. And I’m hoping that any success we might have with this will change their opinions of that because I’ve never met someone as committed and professional and intent on making good dramas as he is.

True stories can’t be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

In magic – and in life – there is only the present moment, the now. You can’t measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. ‘Time’ doesn’t pass. We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we’re always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done...

Some thoughts are like old piece of belongings that need to be disposed to move on.

Life’s all about balance. To move on in life you have to strike a balance between your past, present, and your future; you may either be jerked off or left behind.

Talking in general, all the strikers I’ve had in the past 20 years, it’s always a problem if they don’t score in three or four games. All of them make the same small mistake. They think they must score and are stuck mentally, rather than going out to play football.

Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.

Memories carry thoughts through the passage of time.

Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.

Look at this site – it is beautiful and deep. When we come here, we get ourselves lost in its beauty and vastness. Years of sorrow and pain lies in the depth of this lake. You do not know what was here 40-50 years back. Probably, a ditch full of stagnant water and mud breeding...

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 to kill it.

I would alter nothing of the journey made for it is in this road travelled that the sweetest of lessons are learnt.

The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

This is kind of out of the ordinary. I’m puzzled. In the past, they have been more forthcoming. I believe the public needs to know the truth.

Yesterday is the history chapter in the book of life, isn’t it time you turned the page?

The present grows within the boundaries of the past.

(We should be) recognizing the past — what was here in the past and acknowledging that — as well as looking forward to the future, and a project that is world-class.

The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated ‘wholeness’ of the body politic can be repaired. But the reflective nostalgic understands deep down that loss is irrecoverable: Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of...

If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.

Od onog ondašnjeg čovjeka ja sam se, i to upravo zbog onog doživljaja, potpuno odvojio, promatram ga sa strane, sasvim mirno i hladno, i mogu ga opisati kao prijatelja o kojem znam mnogo i sve ono što je bitno, ali ja uopće više nisam taj čovjek. Mogao bih pričati o njemu, prekoravati ga ili ga...

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable…

We invite all the candidates to come and share their concerns and views. In the past some have not shown up but they are given the opportunity to come.

He swung the bat really well. He’s been struggling a little bit with his swing this past weekend. He did a great job today, so hopefully we’re going to iron some things out with him.

They put together a more complete performance than they have in the past.

It?s already a great feeling to be third on the list. To get past Borg, I will have to reach the final in Barcelona next week. It won?t be easy. I could lose any day. But if I am 100 per cent I know I have a great chance of winning.

The outlook for the banks has improved substantially in the past six months. Housing lending has held up better than expected and business lending has been very, very strong.

They urge us to study our history that we might learn from past tragedies and errors. But sometimes I think it’s actually a good thing that humanity so easily forgets. The haze that eventually claims old suffering often enables us to move on.

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

Less than 1 percent of ancient Egypt has been discovered and excavated. With population pressures, urbanization, and modernization encroaching, we’re in a race against time. Why not use the most advanced tools we have to map, quantify, and protect our past?

I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today.

They were okay. We knew they were good in the past, so it took a little while to get adjusted but once we did we pulled away.

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution – is not my solution.

Sometimes there are things in our lives that aren’t meant to stay. Sometimes the changes we don’t want are the changes we need to grow.” – W.J. Dlor

We had a 15-, 20-point lead. We were just whistling down the street. Now we’re whistling past the graveyard.

We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting in nature at a given instant, as well as the momentary positions of all things in the universe, would be...

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.