Top 100 Quotes About Change The Past
#1. What has been seen cannot be unseen, what has been learned cannot be unknown. You cannot change the past, but you can learn from it. You can grow from it. You can be made stronger. You can use that strength to change your life, to change your future.
C.A. Woolf
#2. Apologies aren't meant to change the past, they are meant to change the future.
Kevin Hancock
#3. You can't change the past. But with God's help you can change the future. No matter what your life has been like so far, God wants to put your feet on a new path ... a better path ... His path.
Billy Graham
#4. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. They are fighting for access to the laboratories where photographs are retouched and biographies and histories rewritten.
Milan Kundera
#5. The past cannot change what is to come. The work that you do each and every day is the only true way to improve and prepare yourself for what is to come. You cannot change the past, but you can influence the future by what you do today. -
John Wooden
#6. You can't change the past and you shouldn't waste energy regretting it or feeling pity for yourself.
Daniel Marques
#7. Accept I can't change the past. I can only concentrate on the now and hope for the future.
Alexandra Ivy
#8. Think there is nothing we can do to change the past, so we have to look at the present to make sure that the past will never repeat itself again.
Heinz Fischer
#9. Even God cannot change the past.
Agathon
#10. But you have to let go of it sometime, Gaby. You can't change the past, any of it, and hanging on just eats your life away.
Soheir Khashoggi
#11. No amount of regret can change the past. No amount of anxiety can change the future.
Karen Salmansohn
#12. But you couldn't change the past; you could only alter the way you dealt with it in the present.
Mandasue Heller
#13. And the Divine Nature can change the past. Nothing is yet in its true form.
C.S. Lewis
#14. You can't change the past. You can't even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
Larry Wall
#15. You change the past when you change the way you see it.
Alan Cohen
#16. She can't change the past." "It's not the past she's thinking of." He set his hand briefly on my shoulder. "It's the future.
Sylvia Day
#17. Life is what you make it. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. You can't change the past, but the future isn't set in stone. You can effect a change there. Move forward not with hatred or love. Move forward with purpose. ========== Dream Chaser (Kenyon, Sherrilyn)
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#18. We can't change the past. But we will keep repeating it if we continue to live by the beliefs and agreements set in response to past events.
Julie Tallard Johnson
#19. Prayer might not change things, but it will change my perspective of things. Prayer might not change the past, but inevitably, it changes the present.
Margaret Feinberg
#20. I couldn't change the past, but hell if I didn't want to be what Kate needed now.
Nicole Jacquelyn
#21. The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.
Dan Millman
#22. We cannot change the past, she thought. How we long to sometimes, trying to work out how horror might have been averted by a fluke of fortune, a kind intercession, wisdom not yet granted.
Anne M. Chappel
#23. I'm not an addict and I do not do drugs. I made mistakes in the past and all I can do is apologize, but it is what it is and I can't change the past. And I can apologize to my family and my friends and my colleagues and the people.
Rob Ford
#24. The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!
Bill Crawford
#26. You can't change the past, only the future, and the only place you could change the future was in the present. That's what they said.
Kate Atkinson
#27. I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.
Marge Piercy
#28. Don't give life to regrets and live on ifs and only, when you can no more unscramble an egg than change the past.
Nadia Janice Brown
#29. It is okay of talking about the past, as long as there's no bitterness and anger. It only gives you a heart attack. It won't change the past either.
Ann Marie Aguilar
#30. How wise we all are in retrospect. Unfortunately it was not possible to go back and change the past: one could only move on into a new future.
Freda Lightfoot
#31. I do think you can change the past and the present somehow. Even if something has already happened, it doesn't mean it's settled.
Ellen Gallagher
#32. It can bring on heavy sadness and sharp despair and it does not change the past.
Cathy Lamb
#34. I can't change the past, but that doesn't mean I can't learn from it. I can't the future, but that doesn't mean I can't be ready for it.
Kenneth De Guzman
#35. The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent, wounding, to the point that we want to destroy or repaint it. We want to be masters of the future only for the power to change the past.
Milan Kundera
#36. Don't ever think that you can't change the past.
Kate Bush
#37. If I've learned anything in life, it's that it doesn't help to sit and play a situation over and over again in your head. You can't change the past, but you can shape the future with the right now.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#38. What I am saying is that you have to continue being you. You can't change the past or predict the future. And you can't let him continue to control you.
Kendall Evone Hayes
#39. Worry is worthless. It can't change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment.
Darrin Patrick
#40. Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the past. The past was set and sealed.
Ann Brashares
#41. You can't change the past,Aunt Lou used to say.Oh, but I wanted to;that was the one thing I really wanted to do
Margaret Atwood
#42. I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.
Harold Brodkey
#43. One sort of glib explanation I heard once was that Rhetors could change the past, and were glad to do it, but Incanters could change the future - and were reluctant.
Neal Stephenson
#44. We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
Albert Ellis
#45. The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.
Terry Eagleton
#46. When you forgive, you do not change the past, but you change your future".
Camilla Dorand
#47. What's happened has happened. You can't change the past. All you can do is work on making a brighter future.
Jen Calonita
#48. I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.
Paul Mooney
#49. I do kabbalistic meditation. It's not unlike time travel; it can change the past and not just the future. You can look at what was lost and go beyond the grief of what was lost.
Roseanne Barr
#50. Maybe Jasmine was right. Maybe I did always think I was right and want things my own way. That was going to stop right now. I couldn't change the past, but I could change the future, and I could change me. And to do that, I had to put Lester first.
Wendy McLeod MacKnight
#51. Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.
Kate Atkinson
#52. No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.
Roy T. Bennett
#53. Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#54. I can't make you forgive me. I don't deserve your forgiveness. I can't change the past. All I can do is give you what you want. If this is what you want, I'll walk away, Blaire. It'll kill me but I'll do it.
Abbi Glines
#55. Letting go is to love yourself enough to look at the past with a different perspective. It is to accept that you can't change the past, but that you can change whether your perspective poisons or nourishes you.
Steve Maraboli
#56. My father used to say that life is what you make it. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. You can't change the past, but the future isn't set in stone. You can effect a change there. Move forward not with hatred or love. Move forward with purpose. (Simone)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#57. You couldn't change the past. You could only go forward
Cassandra Clare
#58. You can't change the past. Even if it hasn't happened yet.
Charlie Fletcher
#59. You can't change the past, but all of us have the power to change the future.
Michael Hyatt
#60. 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
#61. I can't change the past, Tate. I wish I could, because I'd go back and relive every day that I existed without you, and I'd make sure that you smiled." My eyes burned with regret, and I saw the pools in her beautiful blues, too. "Every minute of my future belongs to you.
Penelope Douglas
#62. Remember this... No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of stress can alter the future, so relax an live each day as it comes.
Karen Gibbs
#63. He couldn't change the past, and he couldn't control the future. But he would beat the present into submission.
Joel Ohman
#64. You can't change the past so don't let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you've got to want to.
Pat Benatar
#65. Nothing can relieve the pain. Not crying, laughing, screaming, begging. Nothing can change the past.
Tabitha Suzuma
#66. You can't change the past. It's already done. Looking back only keeps you there.
Donna Grant
#67. I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me.
Mary Alice Monroe
#68. You can't change the past so change something you can. the future!
Erin Merryn
#69. One is allowed to change the past: the present is so stubborn.
Jorge Luis Borges
#71. We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.
Lester Levenson
#72. Could he ever have been good? How do you change the past? Where does evil begin? She
Terry Pratchett
#73. I can't change the past, I can only walk into my future with eyes wide open, taking responsibility for myself and my actions.
Elle Casey
#74. To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?
Maurice Maeterlinck
#75. forgiveness helps people control their emotions so they maintain good judgment. They do not waste precious energy trapped in anger and hurt over things they can do nothing about. Forgiveness acknowledges we can't change the past. Forgiveness allows us not to stay stuck in the past.
Fred Luskin
#76. There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can't, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.
Terry Pratchett
#77. You can't change the past. You can only change the future.
Amanda Grace
#78. You want to brawl. You want to fight. Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes.
Ilsa J. Bick
#79. Worry is a waste of energy. It cant change the past. It cant control the future. It only makes today miserable
Rick Warren
#80. Unless you can change the past, you're wasting the present on this guilt
Christopher Moore
#81. Without you, I'm lost, fumbling and falling
Missing so much of who you were
If I could change the past, I'd take it all back
I'd turn back time, I'd take away the pain
I'd make sure I didn't leave without you
Monica Alexander
#82. So is that it? Will I have to live the rest of my life like this? Not doing the right thing? Not saying the right words?"
"That's your choice. You can't change the past. Ah, but the future ... you own the future." The Greenman smiled. "So, you tell me ... what choice do you want to make now?
Jonathan Maberry
#83. [M]an has always harbored the desire to rewrite his own biography, to change the past, to wipe out tracks, both his own and other's. (p.130)
Milan Kundera
#84. Since you can't change the past, you may as well make the best of the present.
Wanda E. Brunstetter
#85. We can't change the past, but we can look to the future, and we can - we can hold ourselves accountable, to our - not just to our - our children but to all aspects of the - the world we interact with
Rodney Erickson
#86. Ludlow put a hand on his arm. A friend of mine used to say, 'You cannot change the past, but every moment is an opportunity to change your future.
F.E. Higgins
#87. And all the things that break you are all the things that make you strong. You can't change the past 'Cause it's gone, and you just gotta move on.
Carrie Underwood
#88. And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.
Jackson Browne
#89. 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
#90. Sometimes you can't prevent things from happening, and once they're done, you can't change the past. There is a way to deal with the pain, though, because you always control your response. You cry, if you need to. You hurt for a while. But then you look for a way to make a difference.
Carlene O'Neil
#92. ... 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
#93. Could change the past and ... cease to exist." "But that's the nature of risk, isn't it? You gamble everything on the slenderest of hopes.
Lauren Kate
#94. The fact is it happened. It's over now. I do not live my life constantly wishing that I could change the past.
Jaycee Dugard
#95. We can't change the past, Soldier. We can only be grateful for the life of a new day, and move on.
Sheila Turnage
#96. You can't change the past, you know? You can't change who you were, but you can change who you're going to be.
Rose Christo
#97. I know you're not like that anymore, Kane. While I don't approve of the person you used to be, I can't change the past. Lord knows I would if I could. The only thing to do is move forward, and if you want, I would love for you to do so with me.
Amanda Stone
#98. YOU CANT CHANGE THE PAST,BUT YOU CAN RUIN YOUR PERFECTLY PRESENT LIFE BY WORRYING ABOUT YOUR FUTURE.
Lester Swan
#99. Not ignoble. Don't torture yourself over it. I can't change the past but I can, hopefully, ease your fears from the future.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#100. When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
Bernard Meltzer
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