The truth is not so important as the leaving of it behind.

Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.

In the days when wishing was having, I got what I wished and then I wish I hadn’t.

If you can predict the future, you can change the past.

One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness.

The past—I’m looking forward to it.

The stranger thought it might be God himself had forgotten much from our pasts, events far distant, events of the same day. And if a thing is not in God’s mind, then what chance of...

Forgiveness empties the past of its power to empty the present of its peace.

I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my mother’s death, with losing my mother and not being able to get her...

I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You’d swim past a log and see all these turtles sunning themselves. Slightly disturbing if you thought about how many...

Scars are souvenirs you never loseThe past is never far Did you lose yourself somewhere out thereDid you get to be a star And don’t it make you sad to know that lifeIs more than...

What was the point of trying to run away if people were going to insist on reminding you of what you were running from?

Oh, glorious Art!” thus mused the enthusiastic painter, as he trod the street. “Thou art the image of the Creator’s own. The innumerable forms that wander in nothingness start into being at thy beck. The...

The past marks on your slate only live on in your memory, if you allow them to remain. They can’t affect your future if they’re no longer there.

Anyone who promises that everything can be made the way it used to be with the recipes of the past betrays in reality the people he claims to represent. We must never participate in this...

I like to take on the thing I don’t like at the moment. I like to find something that looks wrong or feels off, something that I would never have done in the past, like...

…The most important thing, I think. You can’t run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and realize that it’s part of you.

I kind of cheer the presence of any gay characters at all – I think the more we can saturate television with any gay character or lesbian character or transgender character, I think that’s a...

«,Vengarme? ,Venganza? Yo ya tomé la mía. Corté las cabezas de los bandidos que acabaron con mi familia. Las clavé en tres estacas y las miré durante días y días. Y en elvacío y la...

If I shut everything else out and filled the room with memories, the past could become the present, and I could live there, with him. I would never leave.

Or who knows. This year, more than many of the years in the past, I think it’s wide open. There are so many teams who could jump up this year and take it.

The era of Chinese being bullied is long past, … In the world today, it is a very proud thing to be a Chinese.

All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had already happened to them in the eyes of the world, then surely, surely,...

While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time.

…the wounds of the past and the scars of the present don’t disfigure me in your eyes – because you know the price I pay for loving you …

I can’t change the past, but that doesn’t mean I can’t learn from it. I can’t the future, but that doesn’t mean I can’t be ready for it.

I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and...

The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror.

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...

To dream the future is much more better than to regret the past.But the best of all, to live in the present life with all of your power.

Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past – a past of sexism, of misogyny.

I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It’s not healthy and it doesn’t feel right.

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Some of us enjoy with today, some with future and some other with past.

In times of turmoil, void or suffering, closely stays the images mirroring the lived, far seems the unknown to be; pick yourself a lens to see through, your eyes touch the distant mountains and the...

We just need to get healthy. We have these nagging, minor injuries that we need to get past.

For those critics to ignore their own past statements exposes the hollowness of their current attacks.

History is the diary of humankind; to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past.

Well we’ve left behind the 200X’s, and we move onto the 20XX’s. Maybe that will finally make us feel like we’re living in the future, rather than a media controlled slave state where an iPhone...

It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be.

Over the past year or two we have been softer than normal in international.

Alford, Massachusetts: Mandy stood there with her old Nikon film camera, snapping photo after photo of the rural landscape. It was difficult to describe the wonderful feeling of there not being a single cell phone...

There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living there was like carving the story of your life on to a sepulchral...

Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let...

Sometimes in order to be happy in the present moment you have to be willing to give up all hope for a better past.

Just knowing that I’m walking in there, not because of what I’ve done in the past but because they want me to be a part of it. Hearing that, I’m happy to be back.

There are things that you might forget, but you might not clearly forget. Time is the only coin you have to buy the things you want to remember, and to pay for the things you...

Past is over, please don’t open the door for it again. It will kidnap the present from under your nose

… the past was what we carried with us, threaded to the future, and we decided whether to keep it close or let it go.

Clear out all of those doubts and fears. Let the past be the past. It’s time.