Past Quotes
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"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present."
"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."
"When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago."
"The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind."
"You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."
"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."
"You’re just another story I can’t tell anymore."
"We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there."
"My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me."
"Frustration and Love can’t exist in the same place at the same time, so get real and start doing what you would rather be doing in life. Love your life. All of it. Even the heavy shit that happened to you when you were 8. All of it was and IS perfect."
"True regret is knowing you missed your only opportunity to be simply a good friend to someone that was exactly like you."
"Her and I, we passed each other, and now she’s in my past. That’s one present I’d like to unwrap in the future."
"My ex-girlfriend was exquisite, while my current girlfriend is merely quisite. The ex always makes the past seem more excellent than the present."
"I held her gaze as I held her in my arms. With all that holding I couldn’t hold on to the moment, and it slipped past me into the lonely past."
"How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world,"I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?"
"I see two women, one in a reflection in a window, and the other I see through the window, and it's like I'm looking at both my past and future at the same time."
"I have a Rubik’s Cube for a rearview mirror, because the past is the only time puzzle I can solve. My love for her only looks clear there."
"She’s twelve hours in the future, and exactly half a world away. No matter how hard I try, I will always be a part of her past."
"My past is black and my future is blank. My only canvas is the present. The best color to paint with is love."
"Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out."
"When I lost her I gained the future, because she was my past, and she freed me to become who I was born to be."
"The sunset sky fades from blue to orange over Gainesville, Florida, and what I lost is less than what I gained. I gained love, I lost love, and if could do it all again, I would."
"People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence."
"No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time."
"I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know,whoever I was, I wasalive for a little while."
"Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused palm, each cracked knuckle is a missed punch or years in a factory."
"The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go."
"The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death."
"As the future ripens in the past,so the past rots in the future --a terrible festival of dead leaves."
"Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future."
"The scent of Florida honeysuckle uplifted in a spring breeze reminds me of your love, and how fresh it was until it blew past me into my past."
"Who we were and who we are are four different people, and the me from now doesn't relate to the me from then, let alone to the you from now."
"All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money."
"If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down."
"In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution."
"What was the point of trying to run away if people were going to insist on reminding you of what you were running from?"
"I hide how I feel, and I hide the fact that I hide how I feel, but I can't bury the past without having a funeral of the heart."
"Let today be the day you finally release yourself from the imprisonment of past grudges and anger. Simplify your life. Let go of the poisonous past and live the abundantly beautiful present... today."
"that there are many things that we cant understand. the past. the bad things that happened... and we become afraid. of what might happen in the future. its okay to be afraid. but we have to keep hoping and believeing... to keep hoping and trying our best to be good and do good. even when we're afraid"
"I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders."
"I fell for you like the stars fall from the sky. Flames and light and twinkle dust, our burning love showered the night. The dust has been collecting since the day you left, and I dare not leave even one fingerprint in it, because one should never try to touch the past.-Crystal Woods and Jarod Kintz"
"Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity."
"Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind."
"He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes."
"There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition."
"People don't get to our ages without having pasts. I'm more interested in the future."
"Fair as the moon and joyful as the light;Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright;Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams."
"I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing."
"After his experience with Minos, Nico realized that most spectres held only as much power as you allowed them to have. They pried into your mind, using fear or anger or longing to influence you. Nico had learned to shield himself. Sometimes he could even turn the tables and bend ghosts to his will."
"Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip."
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