My Past Quotes - Page 2

• Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Sister, Letting Go, Brother

  Song: Don't You Think?, Album: Left of the Middle, 1997

  86 Copy quote

  Show source

• Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Buddhist, Buddhism

  39 Copy quote

• Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Letting Go, Heartbroken, Wisdom

  13 Copy quote

• Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.

  Dan Brown

  Inspirational, Moving On, Letting Go

  Dan Brown (2006). “Deception Point”, p.645, Simon and Schuster

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know what's in my future is greater than what's in my past so I am pressing forward in life.

  Joel Osteen

  Past, Forward In Life, My Future

  13 Copy quote

• It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don’t know what else to say except that life itself seemed very magical in those days: a web of symbol, coincidence, premonition, omen. Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come together–my future, my past, the whole of my life–and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh! oh! oh!

  Donna Tartt

  Morning, Past, Discovery

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.88, Vintage

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present".

  Paulo Coelho

  Powerful, Past, Alchemist

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my past was my life.

  Janet Fitch

  Past, Faces, Scar

  "White Oleander". Book by Janet Fitch, 1999.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• i hate how my past actions keep messing up my future choices" Seth Sorson aka " fablehaven " (my son's quote)

  Brandon Mull

  Hate, Son, Past

  5 Copy quote

• This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?

  Abraham Verghese

  Cancer, Ocean, Cutting

  14 Copy quote

• God take care of him, because he's my past and my future

  Simone Elkeles

  Past, Care, My Future

  4 Copy quote

• I love you with everything I am, everything I've been, and everything I hope to be. I love you with my past, and I love you for my future. I love you for the children we'll have and for the years we'll have together. I love you for every one of my smiles and even more, for every one of your smiles.

  Julia Quinn

  I Love You, Children, Past

  24 Copy quote

• "I won't apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience." "From all indications, you've acquired enough for ten men".

  Lisa Kleypas

  Past, Men, Apologizing

  "Devil in Winter". Book by Lisa Kleypas, 2006.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past; reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.

  Isabel Allende

  Past, Reality, Confusion

  9 Copy quote

• I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Growing Up, Mistake, Past

  "Lindsay Lohan On Her Trial, Her Career, And The Reasons She Lost Control". Vanity Fair Interview, www.vanityfair.com. August 31, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

  Lorna Luft

  Pain, Past, Shadow

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Character, Past, World

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.480, Vintage

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it's just not on my radar.

  Steve Vai

  Writing, Past, Interesting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've been approached many times to write all sorts of books about my past and my personal life. I get interest from people who want to do reality shows, and somebody just offered me a huge amount of money to write my spiritual memoirs. I'm just not interested.

  Steve Vai

  Spiritual, Book, Writing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I’ve never been comfortable around groups of guys when it gets into the putting-down. My past being a kind of geek - it kind of turns into an attack on the weakest of the group.

  Paul Feig

  Past, Guy, Groups

  "Paul Feig on the BridesmaidsSequel, Female Comedy, and His S.N.L. Dreams". Interview with Krista Smith, www.vanityfair.com. January 5, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out Among the giant fossils of my past, Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there At this or that box, pulling through the gap, In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, The first book first. And how I felt it beat Under my pillow, in the morning’s dark, An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Morning, Father, Book

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1998). “Aurora Leigh”, p.103, OUP Oxford

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, I was sure I should not fail.

  Winston Churchill

  Past, Destiny, Preparation

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.325, Da Capo Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I used to think that I wouldn't change anything from my past, because doing so would inevitably affect who I am now. But considering my current state, I'm thinking it might not be a bad idea to go back in time to fix things.

  Megan McCafferty

  Past, Thinking, Who I Am

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.1194, Crown

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Mean, Past, Journey

  6 Copy quote