Browsing Topic Best Past Quotes

We can only know where we’re going if we know where we’ve been.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Everyone may not be good, but there’s always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

The past has no power over the present moment.

What’s past is prologue.

You can victimize yourself by wallowing around in your own past.

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

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

We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years……It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.

Don’t judge me by my past. I don’t live there anymore.

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.

Simplify your life. Don’t waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don’t burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don’t destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!

Why wish for the privilege of living your past life again? You begin a new one every morning.

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

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

Just because the past didn’t turn out like you wanted it to doesn’t mean your future can’t be better than you imagined.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that.

The past is another planet.

And there’s always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that’s what soma is.

The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.

Each new moment presents an opportunity for conscious choice. We can choose to let go of the past. We can choose to be here now. We can choose to accept responsibility for ourselves. We can choose to awaken. Or we can choose to remain asleep and unconscious.

Don’t let others define you. Don’t let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination, and there are no limits on what you can do or be.

Place your burden at the feet of the Lord of the universe who is ever victorious and accomplishes everything. Remain all the time steadfast in the heart, in the Transcendental Absolute. God knows the past, present and future. He will determine the future for you and accomplish the work. What is to be done will be done at the proper time. Don’t worry. Abide in the heart and surrender your acts to the Divine.