Top 100 Past Can Quotes
#1. Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.
Ba Jin
#2. Everywhere else men are in movement, the world is in movement, and the past can only cause pain.
V.S. Naipaul
#3. The statement that although the past can be recorded, the future cannot, is translatable into the statistical statement: Isolated states of order are always postinteraction states, never preinteraction states.
Hans Reichenbach
#4. The past can be a rudder that guides you or an anchor tha hinders you. Leave your mistakes with God and look to the future by faith.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#5. The past can be escaped only by embracing something better.
Nicholas Sparks
#6. All we really want is to get to the point where the past can explain nothing about us and we can get on with life.
Richard Ford
#7. How good the past can look from a rest stop in a bitter future!
Kaimana Wolff
#8. I am not my past. I am my present. I am my future. The past can chase you if you let it.You can spend your life trying to outrun it or you can stop running, turn around and look it inthe face. i've stared down my past, and now i'm moving on.I am more than my past.I am my future and it belings to me.
Lauren Blakely
#9. This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought.
Ian Rankin
#10. The past can't touch you or call you back; you are going far away from it with gratitude and wisdom to learn from the future.
Debasish Mridha
#11. Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.
Robert Henri
#12. There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.
P.D. James
#13. If the past can't be changed, and the future's already written; what's the point in living?
Douglas Self
#14. Don't feel ashamed for having those feelings and those memories. What happened in the past can't be changed, but they can be a guide for what happens in the future.
Maria V. Snyder
#15. The worst mistakes of your past can be the best lights of your future!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.
Jessamyn West
#17. I tried to tell her how if you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other, and if you could accept the past you might hope for the future, for only out of the past can you make a future.
Robert Penn Warren
#18. Othing in your past can change how I feel about you. And God knows I'm no saint.
Sylvia Day
#19. 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
#20. Libraries are public treasuries. They're ways in which well-meaning societies leave the wealth of the past arranged A to Z so that anyone walking past can find it.
Francis Spufford
#21. Oh yes, the past can hurt, but the way I see it you can either run from it or learn from it.
Rafiki
#22. The past can hold a weak man down like an anchor. It takes a strong man to remember the past, but forgive. Forgive and forget. Taking the first step forward is difficult. But take it. Save a backward glance for the times when you're uncertain, just to make sure your past is where it belongs,
Scott Hildreth
#23. If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the quality of your consciousness? Your degree of presence. So the only place where true change can occur and where the past can be dissolved is the Now.
Eckhart Tolle
#24. Our past can hurt/hinder us only if we don't hand it over to our Redeemer; Your Redeemer waits. HS/el
Evinda Lepins
#25. I've said it before, history repeats itself for those who don't learn from the past. Can we please learn from all this? Please? Or is everyone waiting for yet another savior to come along and charm them Hollywood style if freedom is still around for America's next election?
L.M. Fields
#26. What happened in the past can't be changed, but it can be a guide for what happens in your future.
Maria V. Snyder
#27. He who does not know the past can never understand the present, and he certainly can do nothing for the future.
John G. Diefenbaker
#28. My experiment has demonstrated that people from the past can be artificially reincarnated. The purpose is so people from Twinmortal do not commit the same error that we did.-Amaranth
Carolina Cody Aldaz
#29. To accept one's past - one's history - is not the same things as drowning in it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.
James Baldwin
#30. The world of our fathers resides within us. Ten thousand generations and more. A form without a history has no power to perpetuate itself. What has no past can have no future.
Cormac McCarthy
#31. Maybe, he pondered as he ascended the stairs, that's my problem with Kathy. I can't remember our combined past: can't recall the days when we voluntarily lived with each other ... now it's become an involuntary arrangement, derived God knows how from the past.
Philip K. Dick
#32. Regrets of the past can be turned into seeds to grow a more positive future or unlearned, doomed to repeat the same.
Tambre Bryant
#33. As exciting, difficult, and memorable as our past can be, there comes a time when we have to get on with living.
Patrick Carman
#34. Somehow love from the past can be felt in the present and accompany us on our journey into the future.
Jim Stovall
#35. Think of tomorrow, the past can't be mended.
Confucius
#36. The Avalanche," peacemaker Rachel recites, "is very important. It's a privilege to sing it. It's a celebration of our past." Everybody around the table smiles at her.
"Yeah? Well, I've seen how easily the past can get rewritten." I glare at Mr. Oamaru. "Lyrics change. New authors come along.
Karen Russell
#37. I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.
Mark Twain
#38. While your past can inform you and your future can inspire you, the moment of choice exists in the here and now.
Debbie Ford
#39. I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.
Gregory Maguire
#40. I won't lie. I want to beat the hell out of any man who's had you - you'd be smart to keep them the hell away from me - but nothing in your past can change how I feel about you.
Sylvia Day
#41. Perhaps looking at the forensics of your past can catapult you forward in a way that merely dreaming can never attain!
T.D. Jakes
#42. When it comes to Clare, sometimes, the past isn't past. The past can get as present as any present ever was, so near that I feel its breath.
Marisa De Los Santos
#43. I tell myself: This time could be different. I rationalize: It's not like the past can be changed. I fear: I lost everything before. And yet... I hope.
Heather Lyons
#44. A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
David McCullough
#45. Mistakes from the past can never be repaired. Do your best in the present, to be a good person in the future.
Sylvia L'Namira
#46. The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It's your choice.
Raymond E. Feist
#47. If you believe the past can't be changed, you haven't read a celebrity's autobiography.
Sam Ewing
#48. The Past can be a nice place to visit, but it's a terrible place to live." - Unknown
Mark D. Paul
#49. The past can never be changed, but the future, by the Grace of God, can be.--Tom Blubaugh
Tom Blubaugh
#50. Forgivness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed
Oprah Winfrey
#51. The past can't be changed," she said. "The future can't be predicted. All we really have is the present. So none of that matters to me.
Olivia Cunning
#52. Your past can hinder you from fulfilling your calling
Sunday Adelaja
#53. The past can't be changed, but the path we choose to move forward on can.
Theresa Sederholt
#54. To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
Andre Gide
#55. Files of the past can be changed through shock, encouragement or pain
Sunday Adelaja
#56. Trivial things that you did in the past can turn the lives of others insane. It happens all the time.
Ryohgo Narita
#57. New Year's resolutions often fail because toxic emotions and experiences from our past can sabotage us or keep us stuck with the same old thoughts, patterns and regrets.
Debbie Ford
#58. Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack.
Desmond Tutu
#59. It is said that those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it. That's not quite correct. We all forget history. The key is whether we have a way to go back to rediscover what we forget. More directly, the key is whether an objective past can keep us honest.
Lawrence Lessig
#60. The past can never change but future is still in your power
Azhar Sabri
#61. Only if we understand our past, can we move forward to a brighter future.
Barbara Post-Askin
#63. We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.
Glen Duncan
#64. Your path is your path, for better or worse. It is what it is. You don't know what's going to happen in life. You've got right now and that's it. Can't change the past, can't predict the future.
Sabrina Paige
#65. Regretful and negative thoughts about the past can effectively induce the same kind of fight or flight response that external threats stimulate.
Gudjon Bergmann
#66. Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
T. S. Eliot
#67. telling me he loves me. Telling me nothing can erase that love. That nothing I've done in the past can wreck my future so long as he is in it.
Emily T. Wierenga
#68. I hate that crossing paths with someone from my past can throw me back to the darkness and sadness that may always be a part of me.
Jessica Sorensen
#70. Living in the past, can only hold those who live there, as its prisoners.
Ellen J. Barrier
#72. Your past cannot stop you from a bright future, but an improper interpretation of your past can be fatal to your future.
Orrin Woodward
#74. The only way the past can drag you back is if you choose to bring it with you into the present.
Marianne Williamson
#75. I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future, too.
Peter Gay
#76. The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.
Laozi
#77. The man who broods over the past can never master the difficulties of today. Every wise man learn to forget.
Herbert Newton Casson
#78. Tell yourself you're dead, the way Matt does, so the past can't hurt you.
Ilsa J. Bick
#79. Failing to forgive yourself for certain wrongs you committed in the past can create self-dislike.
Stephen Richards
#80. The past can't be changed, can it? It can just be forgiven.
Elizabeth George
#81. Memories can kill, Yvette. The past can reach right up and grab you and drag you to a place you shouldn't be. Like a burning building.
Louise Penny
#82. The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.
Eckhart Tolle
#83. Our past can control today and tomorrow only to the degree we allow it. The past should not be a place where we dwell but a place from which we learn all we can and then move on.
Sue Augustine
#84. Don't let life's challenges discourage you. Some things are just out of your control. Make it work for you! The most painful lessons of the past can teach you how to survive in the present .
Carlos Wallace
#85. There is so much that the past can teach us.
-The Cripple
F. Sionil Jose
#86. Looking at the past can be painful, but you can either run from it, numb it, or learn frome it.
Mia Sheridan
#87. The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
Walter Benjamin
#88. One's past can't be erased, it can only be learned from, the child taught her.
H. L. Balcomb
#89. He'd never dreamed they could ever be together again after what had happened so long ago, but life is funny, sometimes. The painful past can heal and can even open up into a life you'd never dared to dream of.
Miranda Liasson
#90. For our past can be a prison we are locked in permanently, or it can be the key to our freedom if we glean the lessons from it and deal with it directly.
Kevin Powell
#91. I really believe that our past can really hold us back from growth, so the best thing that we can do is MOVE ON and NOT DWELL.
Bob Harper
#92. Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Ralph H. Blum
#93. The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.
Alan Moore
#94. Man can never go backwards, but his past can light the way for his journey.
Angel Cox
#95. ... beginnings are always reserved for anxiety, middles are for experience, problems and troubleshooting, and only once the beginning and middle have been combined to form a past can room be made for the ending, and relief.
Tania Aebi
#96. 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.
Susanna Kearsley
#97. The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.
Terry Eagleton
#98. The past can't touch you unless you let it.
Edie Claire
#99. I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.
Yancy Butler
#100. The past is set in daylight, and it can become a torch we can carry into the night that is the future.
Rebecca Solnit