4,591 Quotes About Past

Three rules to obey!1. Don't be over-impressed by your past glories! 2. Don't be scared by your future stories!3. Be hopeful to get out of today's miseries!

People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.

We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.

That’s the cool thing about the past,” Bronwyn says, “It’s temporary. If you don’t like the one you have, you can just keep making new ones until you find one that’s a good fit.

[H]istory is an effective tool to change a country by embracing the truth of a painful past.

it's better to bury the past and just move on

As long as we are identified with the past, we are in bondage.

A friend once taught me that we'd all live differently if we could live our lives over, but all we can actually do is try to make amends in the future for the past. That means live the best we can right here, right now.

I decided I would not go to court to have my mother declared incompetent, I would not fight. I put the car in drive and hit the gas. I felt as if I'd jumped off a sinking ship and was in a life raft with my little girl, my face turned away from the horror, rowing, rowing, as fast and as hard as I could in the opposite direction.