Top 100 Past You Quotes
#1. You can't get back the time in the past. You can't change it. You can only make sure to learn and move forward.
J.B. McGee
#2. Don't live chained to the mistakes of the past, you can find new love, meet someone again or have a broken relationship restored.
Jamie Larbi
#3. Shutting down is denial. When you deny the past, you will repeat it.
Patricia Cornwell
#4. You can never live in the past. You always live in the tiny gap between the present and the future.
Debasish Mridha
#5. Hansen: I do not look back because I cannot change the past. You should not, either. That is one of the first things you must learn as a hunter - do not regret what you do not have.
Ruby Dixon
#6. I wouldn't put it past you," Kaldar said. "Or him. Who knows what the hell he might do?"
William made a cutting motion across his throat.
"He might kill you if you're not careful," she told him.
"Who, Will? We're the best of friends."
William rolled his eyes.
Ilona Andrews
#7. Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed
Iyanla Vanzant
#8. The most important thing, I think. You can't run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and realize that it's part of you.
Lisa Wingate
#9. No one has the right to lead other people like sheep. That's something even Lenin failed to understand. The purpose of a revolution is to free people. But Lenin just said: In the past you were led badly, I'm going to lead you well.
Vasily Grossman
#10. It's happened. It's in the past. You can't change it. You are not broken. Learn from the past, then build from it.
Tony Curl
#11. In "Shadow of a Doubt," I was trying to describe the connection you feel when your eyes meet another person's. You project all kinds of things on those eyes, feel them seeing into and past you, sometimes feel the sex behind them too.
Kim Gordon
#12. In a surreal gift from the universe, time both stands still and flies past you in that singular moment when you find out someone you once loved is gone.
Rachel Thompson
#13. And Mandelstam says a poet - you go down to the shore and you see an unlikely looking from a bottle from the past, you open it. Mandelstam says, "It's okay to do so. I'm not reading someone else's mail. It was addressed to whoever found it. I found it, therefore it's addressed to me."
Edward Hirsch
#14. What is past is past. You can do nothing about yesterday and last month and the failures of last year, but you can do everything toward making tomorrow and the rest of your life what you always dreamed it could be.
Og Mandino
#15. Do not count on the gratitude of deeds done for people in the past,you must make them grateful for things you will do for them in the future.
Mario Puzo
#16. Even if you are loaded down with guilt about everything you did in the past, you still are experiencing the guilt in the moment.
Wayne Dyer
#17. I ain't lookin' at you dudes -I'm lookin' past you.
Jay-Z
#18. When you hang on to your past, you are gripping an anchor that is swiftly moving to the bottom of the ocean. Sure, you have something to hang on to, but you are drowning, too.
Brooks Palmer
#19. You sign for a sequel for everything these days, just in case, options. In the past, you avoided them like the plague because it meant somewhere down the road you couldn't take a job because you had to do a sequel. Now it's a feature of pretty much any feature you do.
Mark Strong
#20. I don't think you can recreate anything from the past. You can not do it. If you're going to go out and imitate a Motown sound, you can't do it, it's impossible because of the studios and players involved and the atmosphere.
Elton John
#21. You aren't your past, you are probability of your future.
Oprah Winfrey
#22. word is like a sword; you should be wise when to use it or it'll kill and ruin everything you did in your past, you're doing at this time, and you're gonna do in the future
A. Vaidyanathan
#23. You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.
Ray Bradbury
#24. I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.
Samantha Harvey
#25. The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.
Yoshida Kenko
#26. The beautiful thing about history is that we keep repeating it. So if you know the past, you know the future.
L.G. Rivera
#27. Ben Says: Your greatness is in your successful future ahead of you. Not in the failures in the past you left behind.
Timothy Pina
Bullying Ben
Timothy Pina
#28. When you no longer worry about the future, and no longer have regrets about the past, you exist purely in the moment. If you concentrate on that moment you instinctively know, that as long as you have life you have hope.
Enjoy the moment. Breathe easily. Relax.
Paul Wilson
#29. You can't change the past. You can only change the future.
Amanda Grace
#30. Ask what you would teach if you were in charge of the school system. There is no excuse to be passive and let your education slip past you. Take those important topics and learn them for yourself. Be
I.C. Robledo
#31. When you depend on the computer to remember your past, you focused on whatever past is kept on the computer.
Sherry Turkle
#32. When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.
Dan Harris
#33. Unless you can change the past, you're wasting the present on this guilt
Christopher Moore
#34. Don't Time travel into the past. You can't change it. Today it starts all over again. Every tomorrow is determined by every day.
James Altucher
#35. The past is past and I guess if you live in the past, you cease to live.
Craig McCaw
#36. Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now.
Frederick Dodson
#38. For people like me, who have blocked out a chunk of their past, you wonder - if you open that door, if you walk into that room of your memories, what will happen? Will it destroy you or will it make you stronger?
Tim Daly
#39. Since you can't change the past, you may as well make the best of the present.
Wanda E. Brunstetter
#40. But to paraphrase the ever-paraphraseable Freud, who said something to the effect that when you speak about the past you lie with every breath you take, I will say this: When you write about the past, you lie with each letter, with every grapheme, including the goddamn comma.
Rabih Alameddine
#41. History is important because it teaches us about the past. And bylearning about the past, you come to understand the present, so that you may make educated decisions about the future.
Richelle Mead
#42. If you only live to regret your past, you'll never live to love your future.
Edward Grey
#43. The person I loved ... was the 'past' you. If I couldn't accept that 'past' you, then there won't be time in the future to do so ...
Dohee
#44. Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.
Lee Westwood
#45. She looked at him gravely. You cannot call back the river that has already flowed past you, Ruith. All you can do is be grateful for where you are in it.
Lynn Kurland
#46. In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere.
Maxim Gorky
#47. You can travel the world but If you cannot let go of the past, you will never move on.
Gerald Freeman
#48. Women joked amongst themselves: 'Why do you think a bride cries on her wedding day? It's for the love that this marriage is putting an end to for all eternity. Men may think a woman has no past- "you were born and then I married you"- but men are fools.
Nadeem Aslam
#49. You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.
Yvon Chouinard
#50. I've heard it said, time heals all wounds, but if a dream can pull you so deeply into your past you can't remember the present, I'm not sure my wounds will ever heal.
C.J. Roberts
#51. You are not defined by your past. You are prepared by your past.
Joel Osteen
#52. In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
Maxim Gorky
#53. It's funny when you feel as if you don't want anything more in your life except to sleep, or else to lie without moving. That's when you can hear time sliding past you, like water running.
Jean Rhys
#54. If reality is as equally valuable as fiction, then you should just chalk up the parts of the past you don't need to your imagination
Ryohgo Narita
#55. you need to make changes in yourself and your environment, don't dwell on your past. You can't change it. Don't worry about your future. You can't control it. Focus on the current moment and what you can do now. 6.
John C. Maxwell
#56. You are not your past. You are the warrior that rose above it to become the example of someone who didn't survive, but thrived in creating the most beautiful last chapter of their life.
Shannon L. Alder
#57. If you have a powerful enlightenment experience, do not try to hold on to it, for to do so will take you out of the present moment. You will be caught in the past. You will close the door that gave rise to the experience in the first place.
Leonard Jacobson
#58. I know you left me once, but I came right back to find you. Even though I like being in your past, you got a bright future behind you.
Drake
#59. Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But if you only do what worked in the past, you will wake up one day and find that you've been passed by.
Clayton Christensen
#60. Silent harmony is the gift you give yourself ... As you push past the infinite, you can feel your own music, your own frequency, beginning to project itself past you, beyond infinity, into nowhere, starting to generate its own star.
Robert Young
#61. And suddenly the cockpit of the Lancaster breasts the cloud tops, and there is the sky, vast and clear and brilliantly blue. The wisps of cloud that rush past you are so white that you can't believe you've ever seen true whiteness before.
Jack Currie
#62. You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.
Ann Brashares
#63. Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.
Richard Rogers
#64. To free yourself from the past you must break the rules of silence and compliance.
Claudia Black
#65. You rob time, Fernando. How arrogant you are, taking an evening like this one as though it were some sour cherry, spitting half its flesh into the dirt. Every time you pitch yourself back into the past, you lose time. Have you so much of it to spare, my love?
Marlena De Blasi
#66. I've finally come to fully understand that you can't fix another person. You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it.
Lisa Wingate
#67. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America, where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time. We hadn't learned yet, that there was no such thing as an empty canvas.
Janet Fitch
#68. Fear and pain are only wind. Let it blow past you.
Peter V. Brett
#69. Commuting in London is basically warfare. It's a constant campaign of claiming territory; inching forward; never relaxing for a moment. Because if you do, someone will step past you. Or step on you.
Sophie Kinsella
#70. He took a meditative puff on his stogy, and informed himself that time was a funny thing. Old Man Time just walked along, and he didn't even blow a How-do-you-do through his whiskers. He just walked on past you. Things just change.
James T. Farrell
#71. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have all of tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely by planning and setting priorities. The fact is, time is worth more than money, and by killing time we are killing our own chances for success.
Denis Waitley
#72. To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you revisit it, analyze it, regret it, or sweat it ... it's over. It can hurt you no more.
Mandy Hale
#73. Dear Future You,
Hold on. Please.
Love, Me.
Dear Current You,
I'm holding on. But it hurts.
Love, Me.
Dear Past You,
I held on. Thank you.
Love, Me.
Pleasefindthis
#74. I hate that you went through hell for years and that you suffered. But without your past, you and I wouldn't have a future.
Codi Gary
#75. Any future can be!" she replied, laughing at me. "If it were not so, if it were fixed, it would be a past. You say a foolish thing. How can a future be impossible?
Robin Hobb
#76. Whenever you linger in the past, you invite loneliness in.
Elise Icten
#77. If you worry about the future, and dwell on the past, you can't enjoy the present.
Angie Stanton
#78. Maybe we walked past each other in the crowd." "No." "Why not?" "Because I wouldn't have walked past you.
Harper Fox
#79. You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future.
Sanford I. Weill
#80. Time is so fast that all times are past times! When you look at a photo of the past, you must know that you are already in the album, someone else is looking at your photo! All times are past times!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#81. Even if you've had a negative effect on others in the past, you can turn that around and make your impact a positive one.
John C. Maxwell
#82. I don't believe in living in the past. Living in the past is for cowards. If you live in the past, you die in the past.
Mike Ditka
#83. Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it's a whole different thing. You can't even predict it. I've seen women who were nightmare party girls, who were just crazy, and then they have a baby, and this thing comes over them and changes them.
Ivana Milicevic
#84. Everything I can say about what it means to lose, what it means to do without, the inadequate weight of the past, you already know.
Claire Vaye Watkins
#85. ... everyone regrets something, but you can't change the past. You've got to let go and make new memories until the old ones fade enough that they don't hold any power over you.
Olivia Arran
#86. When you're hounded by the shame of the past, you can turn into a pretty miserable person who is always trying to measure up and please others.
Ed Cyzewski
#87. We live in the moment. We're not thinking about the future right now. We're not thinking about the past, you know. We're living in this moment right here and it's a sweet moment to live in.
Dwyane Wade
#88. You're here. You're real. Embrace that person you were, and make sure you have reason to like the person you're becoming. The past you can't change. The future is what matters.
David Walton
#89. City of Wizards is normally quite a GOOD thing, since only Good WIZARDS seem able to live together ... There have been cities of EVIL Wizards in the past. You will occasionally come across the sites of these, reduced to a glassy slag during the ultimate disagreement.
Diana Wynne Jones
#90. ... dwelling and planning is bullshit," he says. "You dwell on the past, you can't move forward. Spend too much time planning for the future and you just push yourself backwards, or you say stagnant in the same place all your life." His eyes lock on mine. "Live in the moment.
J.A. Redmerski
#91. It really is a pathetic thing. To mourn a past you never had. Don't you think?
Sunjeev Sahota
#92. How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things?
Rainer Maria Rilke
#93. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together. You see what I'm saying? At
Sarah Dessen
#94. The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
Barbara De Angelis
#95. The past is past. You tried to kill yourself. So what? I humped a couch in season twelve. We all have our skeletons.
Heather Demetrios
#96. If you're stuck in the past, you go forward in reverse
Josh Stern
#97. Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past. You won't be able to forgive yourself for not doing things differently until you stop wishing things were different
Zoe York
#98. No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.
Sarah Dessen
#99. In the present moment, you are beyond all definition. This means that you are no longer defined by the pain and limitations of the past. You are no longer defined by your judgments, opinions or beliefs nor are you defined by the judgment, opinions or beliefs of others.
Leonard Jacobson
#100. It's possible you've already let the right someone walk right past you.
Melody Carlson
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