Past Quotes - Page 3

Writers are never fully present because they’re always imagining a different version of the way things are happening; imagining the past in a different way, imagining the present in a different way, imagining the future in a different way.

I'm sure that's when you really know you are happy - when you wake up wanting to embrace your future, rather than trying to squirm away from your past.

We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It's so clear, you see, that if we're to begin living in the present, we must first of all redeem our past and then be done with it forever. And the only way we can redeem our past is by suffering and by giving ourselves over to exceptional labor, to steadfast and endless labor.

One's past can't be erased, it can only be learned from, the child taught her.

It was a brave old world.

hide your feelings, hide you thoughts, hide your self from the world but dont hide you from you cause only you know where you stand & the world's knows nothing

You’re just another story I can’t tell anymore.

‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

I can't. You can't rewrite the past.

The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.

Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.

Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future.

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused palm, each cracked knuckle is a missed punch or years in a factory.

If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.

What you had yesterday is only memories; what you will have tomorrow is your dreams and what you will do today, let it be love.

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.