past quotes

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. ”

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

— Honore de Balzac

“Sweet is the memory of past troubles.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.”

“Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.”

“Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.”

“What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.”

— Victor Hugo

“We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.”

— Victor Hugo

“What is past is prologue. ”

— William Shakespeare

“They say miracles are past.”

— William Shakespeare

“Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on. ”

— Robert Redford

“Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.”

“ What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past. ”

“Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions. ”

“I really feel free and not as serious as I have been in the past. ”

— Christina Aguilera

“I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt. ”

— Christina Aguilera

“It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change. ”

“You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever. ”

“Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past. ”

“Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I dont want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.”

— Audrey Hepburn

“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.”

— Maya Angelou

“We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.”

— Muhammad Ali

“If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.”

— Warren Buffett

“I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.”

— Jimi Hendrix

“The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.”

— Mick Jagger

“I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.”

— Mick Jagger

“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.”

— William James

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