If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl? — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
The pain from the abuse never went away, you just embraced it to become what you are today — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Jealousy, and attempting to match others in life and stride, is self-abandonment.” — Grace Sara Copy Share Image
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no… — Shirley Franklin Copy Share Image
Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd; As a grand… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into… — Hal Boyle Copy Share Image
Even though I have always been confident in myself, I have been apologetic for my disability in the past. — Rosie Jones Copy Share Image
Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends; and the past is… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“We decide how much we want our past to be a part of our present. I stopped inviting the past into my… — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There is a wise being living inside of you. It is your intuitive self. Focus your awareness into a deep place in… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
We live in a media saturated world. I'm sure artists of the past would have dealt with it in just the same… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
“Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new experiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past,… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
“I am afraid I am going to drift into fiction, truthful but incomplete, for lack of some details which I cannot conjure… — Leonora Carrington Copy Share Image
U.S. Speedskating has been riddled with problems since when I started my career, and we were always able to look past that.… — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Don't judge a person by their past. They don't necessarily live there anymore. — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past. — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
My relationships have been well publicised in the past but I am just a normal guy, really. — Enrique Iglesias Copy Share Image
Never trust time that will return you to the past; but believe yourself to prepare for tomorrow — Authentication29 Copy Share Image
It is impossible to carry everyone you know to your future! Most will remain in your past! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I don't rehash the past. It's my baggage. That's all. I accept things as they are. — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
North Korean defectors can usually tell when other defectors are lying about their past. — Lee Hyeon-seo Copy Share Image
There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
