The Past
130 quotes: 20 by Keith Craft, 110 from other voices.
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- Happiness and joy result from total acceptance of living in the present moment.
- History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
- How long will you allow your past to hold you back before you finally take control of your future?
- I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know way of judging the future but by the past.
- I have read somewhere or other in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.
- I know no judgment of the future but by the past.
- If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
- If you don't make peace with your past it will keep showing up in your present.
- If you let go of your story, you get to live your life.
- If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
- It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is a very dangerous, if not a fatal habit to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.
- Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
- Letting go is never easy. There is not short-cut or trick to it. You must be committed enough to your future to let go of your past. It’s not easy and it’s likely to hurt, but it is for the best.
- Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.
- Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- Look not mournfully into the past--it comes not back again; wisely improve the present--it is thine; go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
- Make peace with your past so it won’t destroy your present.
- May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.
- Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
- No matter what the past has dealt you, don't let it destroy your future.
- No matter what your past has been, you have a spotless future.
- Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
- None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.
- Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.
- Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
- Nothing can drag you down if you’re not holding on to it.
- One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense... Not to grieve long for any action, but to go immediately and do freshly and otherwise, subtracts so much from the wrong.
- Our history is not our destiny.
- Our success will not come from the acts of our forefathers, but can come alone from what we are doing now.
- Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.
- Our yesterdays follow us; they constitute our life, and they give character and force and meaning to our present deeds.
- Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree.
- Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as on a root.
- Remember that the time once yours can never be so again.
- Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past.
- Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.
- Study the past if you would divine the future.
- Take your eyes off what you lost.
- That which is past is gone and irrevocable, and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come; therefore they do but trifle with themselves that labour in past matters.
- The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.