4,591 Quotes About Past

All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.

The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.[Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt, June 26 1963]

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.

Had I known how sweet they wereI would have saved more of these memories

Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

Our past cannot be changed, and to be preoccupied with it is inefficient in time and effort. Likewise, by fretting over the future, we only exhaust ourselves, making us less able to effectively respond when the future is actually upon us. By worrying about a mishap that may or may not take place, we’re forced to undergo the event twice—once when imagining it and once again if and when we actually experience it.

The young should not think of themselves as immature and the elderly need not view themselves as feeble. Our minds control our bodies. Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into naka-ima—the “eternal present.