Past Quotes - Page 17

Everything we come across becomes a part of us. It doesn't matter how small or insignificant it is…or how devastating. One story here, one story there, that’s what I see when I look back at my life. An accumulation of everything I went through.

Be not anxious;yesterday is your experience, today is your experiment and tomorrow is your expectation. Maximize the time!

Where you come from, what you look like, and what your past holds do not define you as an individual-you are what you make yourself to be.

The past is called the past for a reason. If you are constantly looking behind you, your eyes aren't on the road ahead. You don't drive the car that way, so why should you live your life that way?

They say that when people still rode on vehicles powered by oil, they could go anywhere they wanted.

Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.

All the faces on the photographs have changed,
To not confuse it all, the names remain the same

From key signature to coda, from downbeat to the sound of life's final fermata, our pasts set the tone for all that was, that is, and that ever would
be.

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

[Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt, June 26 1963]

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

I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the past. The past was set and sealed.

One day, everything will be like before again. And it is not like it.

The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.

Don’t be afraid of change. Change happens for a reason. Roll with it. It won’t be easy, but it will be worth it.

I miss my old life

while she wanted to look neither to her past nor her future, she lived exclusively in both. They had took different paths, but they had journeyed, so she realized, together.

You can't change the things you've done. It's now and the here on out you've got control of.

My life's a tangle of past and present, like two separate puzzles with their pieces tumbled together. Nothing fits.