Your Past Quotes - Page 2

• The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

  Wendell Berry

  Inspirational, Wise, Memories

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words”, p.14, Counterpoint Press

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.

  Joan Didion

  Night, Thinking, Doors

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 28, 2016

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• In this bright future you can't forget your past.

  Bob Marley

  Life, Dream, Future

  Song: No Woman, No Cry

  42 Copy quote

  Show source

• Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

  James W. Loewen

  Past, Infancy Is, History

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.16, The New Press

  32 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

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

  George Santayana

  Past, Infancy Is, History

  "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress", Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense by George Santayana, 1905-1906.

  160 Copy quote

  Show source

• Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Single, Attitude, Past

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  198 Copy quote

  Show source

• I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Time, Moving

  20 Copy quote
• 

  We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

  Joan Didion

  Memories, Nodding, Never Forget

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jun 24, 2011

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.

  Domenico Cieri

  Letting Go, Past, Criminal Mind

  9 Copy quote

• Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

  Paul Eldridge

  Past, Bird, Triumph

  27 Copy quote

• Study the past, if you would divine the future.

  Confucius

  Change, Time, Philosophical

  32 Copy quote

• Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

  T. S. Eliot

  Letting Go, Time, Acceptance

  53 Copy quote

• Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.

  Virginia Woolf

  Friendship, Women, Book

  "Selected Works of Virginia Woolf".

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you believe that feeling bad will change a past event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

  Wayne Dyer

  Letting Go, Believe, Reality

  20 Copy quote

• There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

  Michael Connelly

  Moving On, Heartbreak, Letting Go

  Michael Connelly (2008). “The Brass Verdict”

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

  Robin Sharma

  Life, Positive, Time

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.214, Jaico Publishing House

  147 Copy quote

  Show source

• The past does not equal the future.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Humorous, Future

  Twitter post from Jun 30, 2009

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

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

  Oprah Winfrey

  Letting Go, Heartbroken, Wisdom

  13 Copy quote

• If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 27, 2015

  214 Copy quote

  Show source

• You are not defined by your past. You are prepared by your past.

  Joel Osteen

  Letting Go, Past, Prepared

  Twitter post from Jul 03, 2015

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Happiness, Mean

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

  175 Copy quote

  Show source

• Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.

  Tony Campolo

  Moving, Past, Important

  24 Copy quote

• Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

  Leo Buscaglia

  Moving On, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

  28 Copy quote

• You can't change your past but you can change you destiny but deciding for Christ.

  Billy Graham

  Past, Destiny, Choices

  7 Copy quote