Life In The Past Quotes

#1. To life in the past and future is easy. To live in the present is like threading a needle.

Walter Percy

#2. Live your life the way you want to. Just don't live you life in the past. The past can you hurt you just as much as the present can. Just remember its your life. it's nobody's business accept for yours!

Hailey D.D. Klein

#3. I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.

Chen Shui-bian

#4. There's a lot of stuff that I've been through in my life in the past couple of months that I don't really want to share with people who are close to me, but I have no option if it's my art.

Zachary Cole Smith

#5. A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

Christopher Lasch

#6. But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman.

Shelley Duvall

#7. What men have thought about life in the past is less important than what you feel about it to-day.

Susan Glaspell

#8. My life in the past 20 years has changed. I don't count days anymore, I count the hours, the minutes, the seconds.

Julio Iglesias

#9. I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a picture of life now and of life in the past, but also as vehicles for the expression of general philosophic ideas, religious ideas, social ideas.

Aldous Huxley

#10. You know, frankly, it's like I sort of realized something about life in the past six or eight months - that taking things a day at a time is a blessing and it's an honor and it's something that makes the day that you're living a lot more valuable

Andrew McMahon

#11. The truest picture of life in the past incorporated the interplay of all aspects of life, the good and the bad, the strong and the weak. It was no good pretending anything else.

Michael Crichton

#12. The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

Alan Lightman

#13. Don't live life in the past lane.

Samantha Ettus

#14. It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.

Richard Paul Evans

#15. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

Alan Lightman

#16. Whatever advantages may have arisen, in the past, out of the existence of a specially favored and highly privileged aristocracy, it is clear to me that today no argument can stand that supports unequal opportunity or any intrinsic disqualification for sharing in the whole of life.

Margaret Mead

#17. In order to live the life we desire, and set the intention for greater happiness and more meaningful connections with others, we have to release the hold that our past has on us.

Deepak Chopra

#18. Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.

Jay-Z

#19. Wanderlove is about forgetting the bad things and focusing on the good. Out with the old and in with the new ... The only way to escape the past is to keep moving forward.

Kirsten Hubbard

#20. If you want to attract the right man or woman in your life, you must heal first any issues from the past.

Linda Alfiori

#21. It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.

Wendell Berry

#22. We didn't intend to hurt each other, and we don't have time to do so. Life is too short to blame others. It's now the past. I hope that everybody will do well in the long run.

Jay Park

#23. I thought of all the hardships and people that I had lost in the past few days alone, but, most of all, I thought of how I didn't regret any of it.

Shannon A. Thompson

#24. The logical mind creates fears based on past experiences and predicts a negative future, but the Universe is unpredictable. Therefore, your future can be hundred times better than your past. Either have faith or listen to your fears. Both cannot exist together!

Maddy Malhotra

#25. Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself then. Everything you did is a part of the process that brought you here. All your past is as alive and real as your so-called 'present.'

Janet Morris

#26. My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.

Tommy Lee Jones

#27. I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.

John Cusack

#28. Everything leads us to believe that there exists a spot in the mind from which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future, the high and the low, the communicable and the incommunicable will cease to appear contradictory.

Andre Breton

#29. Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left that chapter of my life and those people in the past. Good and bad, I've loved and am thankful for that chapter.

Steven Adler

#30. For me now, I feel that climbing is a part of who I am. It's my way of life. It's my way of expressing myself. My way of being in the world. In the past, I questioned it a lot. Now it's obvious. This is who I am. This is what I do.

Chris Sharma

#31. You live in the past,' Kate said. 'You live in your grandfather's time.' But she was wrong. The past was not something we could live in, because it had nothing to do with life. It was something we lugged about, as heavy as a sack of rotting apples.

Helen Dunmore

#32. Anyone that refuses to grow will remain in the past. It is a demand of life

Sunday Adelaja

#33. A life well-lived in the present is all but impossible when you are tethered to your past.

Tucker Elliot

#34. I've lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. Life in neat little boxes is life in neat little coffins, the dead bodies of the past laid out side by side. I am discovering, now, in the late afternoon of the day, that the dead still speak.

Jeanette Winterson

#35. When someone points out your past mistakes, look at them dead in the eyes and follow with, 'and I'd do it all again to have the life I have now.

Dan Pearce

#36. Death was hard, I got that, but it was only hard for those you left behind. Life was what was really difficult. Everyone here no longer had to suffer, be in pain, relive past mistakes. They were sleeping on, unaware of the problems around them. Death seemed like the easy way out. Life was harder.

Bailey Ardisone

#37. In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

Stanislav Grof

#38. But the sun rises again when the night is past, and, as it begins a new life with renewed strenght and vigour, it became the type of the new life which the Egyptian hoped to live in the world beyond the grave.

E.A. Wallis Budge

#39. This is life. You know the philosphers? The Present never stops. There's only the Present. You cheat life if you live in the Past.

Scott Turow

#40. even in death, his last breath was poetry
existing in the wind
and on the breeze of
"it used to be likes"
forever remembering,
yet never reliving
his life
will never be what it used to be like.

N'Zuri Za Austin

#41. No diplomatic intervention will ever be made by any government that I lead in support of any individual terrorist's life. We have only indicated in the past, and will maintain a policy in the future, of intervening diplomatically in support of Australian nationals who face capital sentences abroad.

Kevin Rudd

#42. A lot of people were wounded in our kitchen and in the week of a car less than a mile away. And the life I had before- the one I had hated so much- was in the past.

Sophie Littlefield

#43. There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

Oscar Wilde

#44. Blake, your past is my past, your present is my present, and your future is my future. I bear the weight of everything that happens in your life. How can you not see that?

Claire Contreras

#45. It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.

Paulo Coelho

#46. Old movies are black-and-white; they've got good guys and bad guys. The thing was, I didn't want to live in the past anymore. It was time for my life to go full color.

Eileen Cook

#47. I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life.

Miranda Kerr

#48. There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.

Daniel Radcliffe

#49. Learn from your past and shut the door behind to live in present.Our past is just like a dry rose which was once a rose with all colors of life, with sweet fragrance, with soft petal, with thorns but now it is left with only thorns which could still hurt.

Ideaswar

#50. For when an old man relives his life, he lives it only by dwelling upon his memories; and when wisdom in an old man has outgrown the immediate impressions of life, the past viewed from the quiet of memory is something different from the present in all its bustle. The

Soren Kierkegaard

#51. Life happened in the past. Life will happen in the future, but life is happening at this moment. Live in this moment. Seize this moment!

Debasish Mridha

#52. And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.

Jeffrey Archer

#53. Meditate only on that which God has laid in your spirit, so that you will not live on the past

Sunday Adelaja

#54. It's a memoir of various events in my own life, but it's also a teaching book: along the way I explain the writing decisions I made. They are the same decisions that confront every writer going in search of his or her past: matters of selection, reduction, organization and tone.

William Zinsser

#55. Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.

Varley O'Connor

#56. The radiance of this beautiful scene shed a cruel light on every past horror, every insult tolerated, every unspoken retort, every gesture of rejection. Marianne was grieving, and her boundless grief made her regret every moment of cowardice in her life.

Nina George

#57. If you haven't carried a voice recorder in the past 72 hours to capture the sum of your brilliant quotes, you should reconsider the life you've lived.

Matthew Keefer

#58. You can spend the rest of your life living in the past, or you can pull up your trousers and move on." "Is

Dannika Dark

#59. By living exclusively for the present, we let ourselves be hemmed in by an ocean of death. Conversely, by reviving the past, we enlarge our living space.

Amin Maalouf

#60. These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past. (page 20)

Ishmael Beah

#61. Some mornings ... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in me: it's finished. Everything went past without me.

Jennifer Egan

#62. One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#63. See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.

Robbie Coltrane

#64. In the past I've tended to overreact. I was sure I'd be a superstar by the time I was twenty-one. Baseball messed up my plan of life. When I fail I get upset. Sometimes I get upset too quickly, without thinking of consequences.

Albert Belle

#65. No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

Jamaica Kincaid

#66. Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.

Paulo Coelho

#67. The difference in the past and history is that the past is set in stone history is just an account from the guy with the strongest axe

Andy Andrews

#68. You gotta live in the moment. I don't care what you've done in your life, it has nothing to do with what you're gonna do or what you can do. The past is history, tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift-that's why they call it the present.

Mike Ditka

#69. Life is an infernal loop where the day before yesterday has merged with today, and yesterday has been jettisoned. We think we are moving forward in time, but we are always prisoners of the past.

Shan Sa

#70. In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.

Charles Dickens

#71. I would alter nothing of the journey made for it is in this road travelled that the sweetest of lessons are learnt.

Truth Devour

#72. How much kindness have I shown Him in the past week? Has my life been a good reflection on His reputation? God is saying

Oswald Chambers

#73. You should live in such a way that looking back at your past later on in the future, you will thank God for your life and for what He has done for you

Sunday Adelaja

#74. There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.

Eleanor Brown

#75. A life lived mired in resentment is one that is lived primarily in the past and this is never one that is filled with joy.

Taite Adams

#76. If we can widen the range of experiences beyond what we as individuals have encountered, if we can draw upon the experiences of others who've had to confront comparable situations in the past, then - although there are no guarantees - our chances of acting wisely should increase proportionately.

Edward Hallett Carr

#77. It is one of the ironies of my life and in many lives that whenever you are the happiest, all of this stuff from the past will come pushing up and demand to be noticed.

Sylvia Fraser

#78. A historian is interested in the past because he is interested in life ... a deeply felt need to assure the continuity of human life and discover its meaning, even if the goal is never fully realized.

Ralph Davis

#79. It's one of the greatest honors I could ever imagine - to be able to represent my country and to be able to wear "USA" on my back. It's an incredible honor. It's an accomplishment of the past four year but of a life of dreaming and working hard and doing everything I can in pursuit of this goal.

Elana Meyers

#80. Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.

Marlon Brando

#81. It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.

Alexander Lowen

#82. When you can see your life in retrospect, the romanticism of how good things once were gives way to the reality that positives and negatives comprise every day and every decade. (235)

Victoria Moran

#83. In the past two years, I've started the process of becoming a new man. I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful over the reckless and hurtful things I have done in my life, especially those which have brought me before you today.

Jack Abramoff

#84. The fact that you made worse decisions in the past shouldn't be an excuse to make bad decisions in the present.

Sanhita Baruah

#85. Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.

Iggy Pop

#86. It might have been the first time in my life I understood what an easy bond it was, to share a neighborhood as we had done, to share a time past.

Alice McDermott

#87. Above all do not give yourself airs. Breaking the moment of past habits is the challenge here: In the life of the spirit you are always at the beginning.

Jeff Buckley

#88. It occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him
his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like in the Wilds, before he came to Portland, and I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.

Lauren Oliver

#89. There's nothing to say. The past is in the past for a reason. You either choose to learn from it or repeat it. I was never one to read a book twice and I won't do the same with my life."

Siva

Micalea Smeltzer

#90. God never loses any part of our past for his future when we surrender ourselves to him. Every mistake, sin, and detour we take in the journey of life is taken by God and becomes his gift for a future of blessing.

Peter Scazzero

#91. I release the past with ease and trust in the process of life.

Louise Hay

#92. Forget all your sorrow, don't live in the past, and look to the future because life goes too fast, you know - it's a hard road.

Geezer Butler

#93. All the bad in my life led me to her, which makes me think that I can live with the past if she is my future. - HEW

Michelle Warren

#94. I'm not into bands for the sake of being into bands. I've grown past that. There was a time in my life when I was that guy.

Pete Wentz

#95. In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history.

Donald Trump

#96. Rama is a fairly common name in India. It symbolizes an individual who is interested both in enlightenment and martial arts. I do not claim to have any past life connection with the historical Rama. It's just a name I liked.

Frederick Lenz

#97. They would no longer be time-bound, that they were free to live in the future, the past, in fantasy.
She had been a woman preparing to live, not living.

Kiana Davenport

#98. Live in the NOW. Live life to its fullest. Don't spend more than 10% of your time learning from the past, and 20% planning for the future. Live in the present, act NOW to fulfill the dreams you plan.

Vikrmn

#99. If you can create a bright future, the past will dance with joy in your mind for the experience and to let you suffer.

Debasish Mridha

#100. It hadn't shocked the old woman, not much. She had got past being shocked early in life.

Sherwood Anderson