4,591 Quotes About Past

Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt.

Learn from the past, but don’t live in the past.

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

By keeping the mind in the present, unless you deliberately want to contemplate the past or future, it’s possible to firmly face life without fear. Then, no thoughts of past failures or future problems will exist in the mind, and a truly positive mental state will result—fudoshin, the “immovable mind.

The past is made out of facts... I guess the future is just hope.

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.

I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

When two souls stand on ice, it is easy to say which one is leading the movement and which one is following. The art of ice skating is that one is bound to fall, but nevertheless learn a lot more in the process, learn to rely on the other for balance until they can stand on their feet and skate as if touching the frozen past with a grace that doesn't allow it to affect them at all, for they no longer fall into the depths of it, but have already learned to float on its' surface.

It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.