The Past
130 quotes: 20 by Keith Craft, 110 from other voices.
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- The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.Harriet Beecher StoweSourced
- The events of your past are fixed. The meaning of your past is not.
- The less energy we waste regretting the past or worrying about the future, the more energy we will have for what’s in front of us.
- The life in front of you is far more important than the life behind you.
- The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.
- The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you.
- The more we think of what we should have done, the less we think of what we should do.
- The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- The only way you may correct the bad things in your past is to add better things to your future.
- The past does not equal the future.
- The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.
- The past is a nice place to visit, but not the right place to stay.
- The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
- The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.
- The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from it,--in degree, perhaps, expiate it; but to brood over it is utter madness.
- The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.
- There is no better teacher than history in determining the future. There are answers worth billions of dollars in a $30 history book.
- 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.
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.
- To begin loving people today, we must close the door on the past. And that cannot happen without forgiveness! Forgive those who have hurt you - for your sake, not because they deserve it.
- To consider carefully events of the past lights a lamp upon the way farther on. There are more encouragements than setbacks behind us if we will take the time to count them up.
- To create more positive results in your life, replace ‘if only’ with ‘next time’.
- To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.
- Today I know that memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
- Unless we learn the lessons of history we are doomed to repeat them.
- We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.
- We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
- We cannot change the past, but we can reshape the future. Young people have the opportunity to create a happier, better future.
- We forgive too little; forget too much.
- We suffer from the past, and we spoil our future because we neglect the present.
- What is past is past. There is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
- What is past is past. You can do nothing about yesterday and last month and the failures of last year, but you can do everything toward making tomorrow and the rest of your life what you always dreamed it could be.
- What we have been makes us what we are.
- Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.
- What's gone, and what's past help, should be past grief.
- When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.
- When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
- Whereof what’s past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.
- With every rising of the sun Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays—there let them sleep, Nor seek to summon back one ghost Of that innumerable host.