All past Quotes ⇑
Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.Inspirational Future
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.Short Time Future
That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!Death Life Literature
You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret... is to press 'play'.Future Secret
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.Future
The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.Dreams Short Future
Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.Dreams Control Future
The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.Happiness Pain
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.Beauty History Emotions Memory
Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.Short
The past is never dead. It's not even past.Time
Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.Life
When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.Memory
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.Memory
My past is everything I failed to be.Failure
Always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.Love Time Truth Lie
This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.Faith God Inspirational Experience
The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.Life Experience
The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.Perspective Future
The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.Future
It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.Change Short Time
He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.Heart Memory
You are an undertaker. Your business is with the dead. All the time your life is about what is over. Everything that you are is about what is already over. So because you are an undertaker you will live in a certain jumpy condition.Death Life
If you are just a repetition of the past, there is really no purpose to your existence hereExistence
The yogic system is about keeping a distance from the past. The fundamental understanding is you cannot fix the pastWisdom Yoga
The mind is an accumulation of the past. Once you transcend the mind, the past has no more power over youMind Power
If you keep the past alive within you, you will become dead to the presentShort
When your mind is full of assumptions, conclusions, and beliefs, it has no penetration, it just repeats past impressionsBelief Mind
The habits you cultivated in past lives have substantially created your physical, mental, and emotional makeup in this lifeHabit
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.Time Future
If I have to have a past, then I prefer it to be multiple choice.Humor Choice
The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.
If you allow experiences of the past to overshadow your future, you are ensuring there is no future in your life, just recycling the pastInspirational Life Success Experience
The individually created past-life patterns make one person different from another, & account for the great variety of human faces & characteristics. The very fact that you are a woman or a man was determined by your tendencies in previous livesLife Individuality
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.Short Future Book
Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh has gone through; I dream of what it may go through.Dreams Life Future
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.Life Light
Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.Change Fear
Beyond the edge of the world there's a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.Future World
Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. 
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. 
The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living. 
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. 
We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it's a regret, maybe it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it. 
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. 
We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future. 
You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future. 
My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.
Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.
I cannot let the fear of the past color the future.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!
You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret... is to press 'play'.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.
When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
My past is everything I failed to be.
Always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.
This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.
The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.
The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.
The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.
He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
You are an undertaker. Your business is with the dead. All the time your life is about what is over. Everything that you are is about what is already over. So because you are an undertaker you will live in a certain jumpy condition.
If you are just a repetition of the past, there is really no purpose to your existence here
The yogic system is about keeping a distance from the past. The fundamental understanding is you cannot fix the past
The mind is an accumulation of the past. Once you transcend the mind, the past has no more power over you
If you keep the past alive within you, you will become dead to the present
When your mind is full of assumptions, conclusions, and beliefs, it has no penetration, it just repeats past impressions
The habits you cultivated in past lives have substantially created your physical, mental, and emotional makeup in this life
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.
If you allow experiences of the past to overshadow your future, you are ensuring there is no future in your life, just recycling the past
Thinking is just a recycling of data that you have gathered in the past.
Once you let your past decide how you experience the present, you have destroyed your future
The individually created past-life patterns make one person different from another, & account for the great variety of human faces & characteristics. The very fact that you are a woman or a man was determined by your tendencies in previous lives
Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh has gone through; I dream of what it may go through.
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.
Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.
