Fools keep repenting of the past, considering the future as their destiny, and remain sad in the present. The wise take the past as destiny, see the future as their free will, and are happy in the present. The events of the last year, however important they were at that time, in retrospect now, we can see only as a dream. Throwing light on these events, the mortal nature of all things is understandable. Events are like small pebbles and stones in the stream of a great river that flows unimpeded. Just as we live in the outer world of events and situations, we also live in the inner world of our feelings and emotions, and we are not always aware of it. Meditation is such an excellent tool, which clears from the mind the influence of the past dominating us. The distance between the outer and inner worlds is only in the blink of an eye. So, stop digging into the past, forget it and focus on the present and do checkout this collection of quotes about the past that reminds us that past is just an old story.
Past Quotes
- “The past is just a story we tell ourselves.”— Spike Jonze
- “Forget the past.”— Nelson Mandela
- “Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.”— Saint Augustine
- “There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.”— Saint Augustine
- “You have to know the past to understand the present.”— Carl Sagan
- “Don’t ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.”— John Piper
- “Don’t make excuses, don’t blame the past. The rest of your life can be the best of your life!”— Joel Osteen
- “Study the past if you want to define the future.”— Confucius
- “We celebrate the past to awaken the future.”— John F. Kennedy
- “Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.”— Ram Dass
- “Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.”— Denis Waitley
- “Live each day as if was your last, not in the future, not in the past. You may not get what you want, but, in the long run, you will get what you expect.”— Denis Waitley
- “Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”— David Mitchell
- “Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.”— T.D. Jakes
- “No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future.”— Umar
- “Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.”— Chuck Palahniuk
“Don’t judge me by my past. I don’t live there anymore.”— Zig Ziglar
- “Letting yesterday affect today will only destroy the excitement of tomorrow.”- Michelle Cruz-Rosado.
- “Procrastination is a way of living in the past instead of the present moment.”- Debasish Mridha.
- “I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present.”- Jonathan Harnisch.
- “The only reason time seems to be moving rather fast is that sometimes we’re too busy living in the past.”- Dominic Riccitello.
- “The past cannot be cured.”- Elizabeth I.
- “You can’t have a better tomorrow if you’re thinking about yesterday.”- Charles Kettering.
- “Every cure for nostalgia is obsolete.”- Raheel Farooq.
- “You can never plan the future by the past.”- Edmund.
- “Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday.”- Sarah Ban.
“You cannot change the past; you can only improve on the present.”- Michael Bassey.
- “Memories are a nice place to visit, but a terrible place to live.”- Marty Rubin.
- “We cannot move forward if we’re always living in the past.”- Auryn Hadley.
- “Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event.”- Steve Maraboli.
- “Rehashing the past wouldn’t change anything. Time to move forward.”- Zena Wynn.
- “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”- Lyndon.
- “Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.”- C. JoyBell.
- “The answer to every adversity lies in courageously moving forward with faith.”- Edmond Mbiaka
- “Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past.”- Dan Brown.
- “Memory looks back in order to move forward.”- Marty Rubin.
- “I can’t take back the past, but I can fight for the future.”- Shannon A.
- “The past can’t hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it.”― Alan Moore
- “The good and the beautiful is not forgotten; it lives in legend and in song.”- Hans Christian Andersen.
- “The awful daring of a moment’s surrender, which an age of prudence can never retract …”- T S Eliot.
- “Remembering is redemption.”- RJ Blizzard.
- “How simple tomorrow seems when there is nothing worth remembering.”- Laura Chouette.
- “In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself- Deepak Chopra.
- “The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.”-Thomas S Monson.
- “You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk.”-Louise Smith.
- “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”-Buddha.
- “Love doesn’t erase the past, but it makes the future different.”-Gary Chapman.
- “Just because you have a past with someone, doesn’t mean you should have a future with them.”- Robert Tew.
- “I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.”- Taylor Swift.
- “He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past but to the past itself.”- Theodor Adorno.
- “You cannot miss what you have never had.”- Christopher Paolini.
- “It’s not good to dig in the past, raise the ghost up from the grave, and have it walk with the flesh.”- Anthony Liccione.
- “If you keep lookin’ back, you gon’ trip going forward.”- Gucci Mane.
- “A man’s judged by what he is and not what he was.”- Jack Caldwell.
- “You’re wiser than your last mistake. Congratulations!”- Chinonye J Chidolue.
- “Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.”- Bob Dylan.
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- “Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.”- Steven Wright.
- “The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.”- Cesare Pavese
- “Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heartwarming!”-Joseph B Wirthlin.
- “The memories we make with our family are everything.”- Candace Cameron Bure.
- “There is always a tension between the possibilities we aspire to and our wounded memories and past mistakes.”- Sean Brady.
- “You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.”- Mandy Hale.
- “Life moves on and so should we.”- Spencer Johnson.
- “The truth is, unless you let go, you cannot move forward.”- Steve Maraboli.
- “Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.”- Roy T. Bennett.
- “You can’t look back – you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”- Jodi Picoult.
- “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”- Steve Maraboli.
- “Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for happiness in the future.”- Wayne L Misner.
- “God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don’t run after them.”- Rick Warren.
- “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”- Roy T Bennett
- “Regret is mostly caused by not having done anything.”- Charles Bukowski
- “Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven’t done.”- Chad Michael.
- “If I’m sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”- José Saramago
- “Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren’t accompanied by regret.”- Laura Kasischke.
- “‘No trouble ever got fixed late at night,’ he said. ‘Midnight is for regrets.'”- Holly Black.
- “You can’t regret the life you didn’t lead.”- Junot Díaz.
- “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”― Søren Kierkegaard.
- “My soul is not a palace of the past.”- James Russell.
“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”- Oscar Wilde
- “Let the dead Past bury its dead!”- Henry Wadsworth.
- “Let go of the past, but keep the lessons it taught you.”- Chiara Gizzi.
- “Let every day be the first day of the rest of your life.”- Jonathan.
- “All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.”— Kurt Vonnegut
- “Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.”— Elie Wiesel
- “You can’t look back – you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”— Jodi Picoult
- “Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”— Robert H. Schuller
- “Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.”— Lucy Larcom
- “The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.”— Stephen Hawking
- “No matter how dirty your past is, your future is still spotless.”— Drake
- “The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.”— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
