Top 84 Quotes About What Happened In The Past
#1. 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
#2. We have a history," I say, "that no one can take from us. No matter what happened in the past, no matter what happens from here, it can't take away from the good thing we had. You were my first love, Demi. You only get one.
Winter Renshaw
#3. For me, I always study the last games that have been played, not what happened in the past.
Fabio Capello
#4. How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.
Brewster Kahle
#5. What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.
Steve Nash
#6. Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.
Leo Tolstoy
#7. Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future, but the living experience is what is happening NOW.
Sakyong Mipham
#8. What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today.
William Glasser
#9. Look at what happened in the Past. Learn something valuable from it. Do things differently in the present.
Spencer Johnson
#10. Are you saying that we can affect what happened in the past? That we can change it?
Michelle Madow
#11. The future doesn't exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we're the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today.
David Suzuki
#12. The first step in healing is to put the focus on what's alive now, not what happened in the past.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#13. I don't care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it.
Sebastian Vettel
#14. What happened in the past can't be changed, but it can be a guide for what happens in your future.
Maria V. Snyder
#15. History is not what happened in the past, but the best story we can tell with the available material
Joshua Wolf Shenk
#16. History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.
Ludwig Von Mises
#17. When we don't throw ourselves completely into it and we hold back our best efforts because of what happened in the past, we are letting the past decide the future.
Rob Bell
#18. Look At How You Feel About What Happened In The Past. Learn Something Valuable From It. Use What You Have Learned To Make Your Work And Life More Enjoyable Today.
Spencer Johnson
#19. No, Finnick repeats. 'Because whatever happened in the past is the past. And no one in this arena was a victor by chance.' He eyes Peeta for a moment. 'Except maybe Peeta.'
Finnick knows then what Haymitch and I know. About Peeta. Being truly, deep-down better than the rest of us.
Suzanne Collins
#20. She considers the past. She measures it and weighs it and holds it in her hand like a plum. The past is everything now, and she understands that this is what it means to be dying: You stop looking forward, instead living for moments that happened years before.
Thomas Christopher Greene
#21. J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.
LaToya Jackson
#22. Sometimes we live too much in the past,
remembering what we wished had happened.
Harley King
#23. There's this other world where all comedians want to do is make funny videos. Typically what's happened in the past is that a comedian gets a standup career and over the course of 20 years builds it up to the point where Comedy Central gives them a sketch show.
Gavin McInnes
#24. Because no matter what had happened in the past, in this harrowing present, everybody needed everybody.
Blake Crouch
#25. Mddle Eastern history is filled with minefields, not because of what actually happened in the past, but because of how people read back the present into the past.
Christopher Catherwood
#26. Mythic imagination can break the spell of time and open us to a level of life that remains timeless. Myth is not about what happened in past times; myth is about what happens to people all of the time.
Michael Meade
#27. Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can ... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.
Thierry Henry
#29. If you need me, just focus on us and I'll be here. Despite what happened with others in the past, I will show up.
Melyssa Winchester
#30. While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the future.
Kevin Spacey
#31. I can't change what has happened in the past, Kaeleigh. I can only promise to make the future better.
Ellen Hopkins
#32. I tell you the truth, so many people failed to do what they could have done because of the bitter things that happened in the past.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#33. Because to ignore what had happened in the recent and distant pasts, to turn away and look elsewhere because it was easier to do so, was to be an accomplice to the crimes that were committed. To refuse to delve deeper would be to collude with the offenders.
John Connolly
#34. [Ed Murrow] admitted he was having trouble coming to grips with the idea of peace: "Trying to realize what has happened, one's mind takes refuge in the past. The war that was seems more real than the peace that has come.
Lynne Olson
#35. Well you should care. About my past, I mean. Because who I am today is based on who I was, and what happened to me. You are in love with who you think I am, not the real me. Not the me who is broken inside.
Cindy Vine
#36. History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.
Robert Breault
#37. I always found it so ironic, how the people from the past would do anything to see what happened everywhere else in the world that they lost so much of their own life watching this little screen.
Silje Jensen
#38. It was the English word she used. It was in English that the past was unilateral; in Bengali, the word for yesterday, kal, was also the word for tomorrow. In Bengali one needed an adjective, or relied on the tense of a verb, to distinguish what had already happened from what would be.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#39. Faith may be encouraged by what has happened in the past, or what is thought to have happened in the past, but the only proof of it is in the future.
Sydney Carter
#40. I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.
Yanni
#41. What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past ...
Matthew Collings
#42. No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!
Joyce Meyer
#43. We will be able to travel backward or forward in time and see what has been and what is going to be, as well as experience the glorious wonderful present! We will see, hear, feel and experience the very events of the past, just as they happened.
David Berg
#44. Don't regret what's happened.
If it's in the past, LET IT GO.
Don't even remember it!
Rumi
#45. But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.
Rebecca Stead
#46. I can't do anything with what's happened in the past. I have to just go forward with the most awareness I can going forward and trying to be the best I can be for our team.
Tom Brady
#47. People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because we were ignorant. But nothing's changed. We still hate what we don't understand.
J. Matthew Nespoli
#48. I'm very pleased. Very, very pleased. But I really must ask - why the hell have men and women been throwing money in my kettle for the past half hour, telling me they're sorry for what happened in the Videnza?" "It's because they're sorry for what happened in the Videnza," said Galdo.
Scott Lynch
#49. What has happened in the past is just that, it's past.
Arlette Gaffrey
#50. In the past, I was a perpetual victim; how I was doing in any given moment depended on what happened to me. Today I do my best to avoid this kind of 'victim thinking.' Instead, how I am doing is determined by how I respond to what happens to me.
Jenni Schaefer
#51. No looking back. Life goes one way only. And whatever opinions you hold about the past have nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness. Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't. A simple enough lesson ...
Charles Frazier
#52. Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?
Eckhart Tolle
#53. When I am running I inhabit and exit my body in the same moment. I bear witness to the harshest of physical sensations, even while I feel myself flying free and away. I do not want to remember what has happened to me. I do not want to reflect on the past. I can't in a way. I'm not made for regrets.
Carrie Snyder
#54. I don't regret anything I do, ever, whether articles I've done or things I've said. And as far as what's happened in the past, I wouldn't take anything back.
Eva Longoria
#55. 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
#56. If you expand the boundaries of mental illness, which is clealry what has happened in this country during the past twenty-five years, and you treat the people so diagnosed with psychiatric medications, do you run the risk of turning an anger-ridden teenager into a lifelong mental patient? (p. 30)
Robert Whitaker
#57. We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Stephen Covey
#58. One can't deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked. It's all a long chain of involvement in the world, and we are proud to be yet another link in this chain.
Graham Nash
#59. We're not going to think about what's happened in the past.
Blake Griffin
#60. Don't let the darkness of your past block the light of joy in your present. What happened is done. Stop giving time to things that no longer exist when there is so much joy to be found in the here and now.
Karen Salmansohn
#61. ... an implicit assumption is always: what will happen next already happened (exactly or approximately) in the past.
Henk W. Broer
#62. You've got to be in the moment, especially in the playoffs. If you're worried about the past, worried about what happened last game, that's a lost cause.
Drew Storen
#63. What's the best thing that happened to you in the past ten years?" I ask. "Seeing you again." Smiling, I push back against his chest. "Besides that." "Meeting you the first time.
Christina Baker Kline
#64. I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.
Chris Pine
#65. I just want to live for the moment. Tomorrow's not important, next month is not important, what's happened in the past is not important. That is my journey.
Ronnie O'Sullivan
#66. What the hell is the matter with you?" My voice is low. I have to push the words out past the hard lump of anger in my throat. "I - I'm sorry," Alex whispers. He shakes his head. "I didn't mean ... I don't know what happened. I'm sorry, Lena." If
Lauren Oliver
#67. to be efficient it was necessary to be able to learn from the past, which meant having a fairly accurate idea of what had happened in the past.
George Orwell
#68. I hate all these crazy verbs, using a subjunctive to get what's happened in the future and the past mixed up.
Kerstin Gier
#69. We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
Tom Wolfe
#70. I didn't want to come off arrogant or conceited, or basically how I've been acting the past year, year and a half ... although what's happened in the past has happened, I just want to ... be kind and loving and gentle and soft.
Justin Bieber
#71. What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.
David Rakoff
#72. The more we focus on who we are in Christ, the less it matters who we were in the past, or even what happened to us.
Joyce Meyer
#73. What has happened is what has happened. The past is gone. I was not the same person then. I was much weaker. I lived and breathed and hid in fear. That time is gone. I fear nothing. I have faced my fears and learned from them. The gods gave me that.
James A. Moore
#74. I don't know what happened in your past, what he did to you, how he hurt you, but I'm not that guy. The only thing I want from you is you. I would never use you, Clair. I can't make you trust me, but if you let me, I'll prove to you that you can. What good is life without taking a chance?
Loni Flowers
#75. There's nobody who would be willing to do an interview on a regular basis that you can't go and Google and find out what has happened to them in the past week. There's nobody.
Oprah Winfrey
#76. It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.
Umberto Eco
#77. Aura is convinced that the entire country has succumbed to a collective amnesia. This is what happened in a society, where no one is permitted to grow old slowly. Nobody talks of the past, for fear their wounds might reopen. Privately though, their wounds never heal.
Cristina Garcia
#78. History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form.
Johan Huizinga
#79. No matter what happened to you in your past, you are not your past, you are the resources and the capabilities you glean from it. And that is the basis for all change.
Jordan Belfort
#80. Frustration and Love can't exist in the same place at the same time, so get real and start doing what you would rather be doing in life. Love your life. All of it. Even the heavy shit that happened to you when you were 8. All of it was and IS perfect.
Jason Mraz
#81. Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was happening elsewhere, and what had happened in the past. To view a period in isolation is to miss whatever message it has to offer.
Louis L'Amour
#82. Are you, are you happy?"
I am today," she said.
Maybe that's what really mattered? Living in the now, and all that crap about the past being over? The future hasn't happened, and today is forever? These aren't the kinds of statements that belonged beside question marks.
Stephanie Klein
#83. The fans know what's happened to me over the past couple of years. I lost my family. I pretty much got devastated financially and the fans know that I've had some hard times - and that's the nature of loyal fans. They want to see the people that they love and believe in get back on their feet.
Hulk Hogan
#84. All we have to face in the future is what has happened in the past. It is unbearable.
Maeve Brennan
