4,591 Quotes About Past

It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....

Until the medical profession factors in all past and current environmental exposures of their patients, they will remain incompetent in the science of human health.

You deserve to feel whatever you want to about an experience you’ve endured from your past. But by replacing what you tell yourself about what happened to you means that you don’t have to keep reliving the unpleasantness or pain over and over again in your mind.

Maybe you've gotten through something and when you did you thought, I am leaving that behind and will never return. And that's a great way of thinking...for selfish jerks.If we actually care about people other than ourselves, we can't leave our problems behind and never return. If we don't take the freedom we've experienced and try to bring it to others, we are not becoming people worth becoming.

The past can be worth the visit, but it's a dangerous place to live.

Sometimes there is no choice but to walk into your own house. Far away, you think, and you do not want to see. You come home and you say do not tell me. You say, I have hunted the elk all over the snowfields of the Selway, and I do not want to know what happened here. And then there is a morning you walk in and take a look in your own house, like any traveler.

You are the director of your life movie, and can change,alter, enhance, and even erase an image, impression, scene,or scenario that serves no positive purpose for you to holdonto. Our memories create pictures in our minds, and we canchange them, rearrange them, or delete them as we wish.

Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.

Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is afraid of life.