Your Past Quotes

That was your past. I am your future.
- Jus Accardo

I don't know why I'm scared. I've been here before every feeling every word i've imagined it all. You never know if you never try to forget your past and simply be mine
- Adele

You are not in competition with anybody except yourself;plan to outdo your past not other people.
- Jaachynma N E Agu

You can't master your future if you're still a slave to your past.
- Habeeb Akande

Tell me about your family, I said. And so she did. I listened intently as my mother went through each branch of the tree. Years later, after the funeral, Maria had asked me questions about the family - who was related to whom - and I struggled. I couldn't remember. A big chunk of our history had been buried with my mother. You should never let your past disappear that way.
- Mitch Albom

You are not your past.
- Mitch Albom

You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become... You are not your past!
- Mitch Albom

what you brought from your past, is of no use in your present. When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a little of the old life, end up torn apart by their own memories.
- Paulo Coelho

I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.
- Jodi Picoult

There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.
- Jodi Picoult

Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is.
- Sherman Alexie

These are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you; your future is a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is. Now, these skeletons are made of memories, dreams, and voices. And they can trap you in the in-between, between touching and becoming. But they're not necessarily evil, unless you let them be.
- Sherman Alexie

You aren't your past, you are probability of your future.
- Oprah Winfrey

Haven't you ever wished that you could steal back just a few hours of your past?" she asked softly. "That's all I want... just a little taste of what might have been.
- Lisa Kleypas

Your dream is a reality that is waiting for you to materialize. Today is a new day! Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Learn from your past so that it can empower your present and propel you to greatness
- Steve Maraboli

Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Instead, shake things up today! Live through today. Don't just exist through it - LIVE through it!
- Steve Maraboli

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.
- Sai Baba

You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.
- Lauren Bacall

Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is
- Oscar Wilde

But life isn't about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It's about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

The hardest part of living is making peace with your past. Most of all, it's making peace with yourself.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

It's a sun lamp. I thought you might be tired of your pasty-pale complexion. (Chris)
Christopher, I happen to be a Viking in the middle of winter in Minnesota. Lack of a deep tan goes with the whole Nordic territory. Why do you think we raided Europe anyway? (Wulf)
Because it was there? (Chris)
No, we wanted to thaw out. (Wulf)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

In your past lies your future. [Acheron Parthenopaeus]
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

While you are going through your trial, you can recall your past victories and coul the blessings that you do have with a sure hope of greater ones to allow if you are faithful.
- Ezra Taft Benson

You surely remember your past
when you rebuke me in honesty.
- Toba Beta

Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.
- Gary Ryan Blair

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
- Les Brown

I think a person can do one of two things in life... make your own choices despite the past or let your past make your choices for you. Very few poeple go through life completely untouched by something bad. It's just up to the individual on how much of that bad you want to define who you are where it should be that YOU define who you are.
- Carroll Bryant

Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.
- Chuck Palahniuk

When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.
- Chuck Palahniuk

When you understand," Brandy says, "that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan," Brandy says, "then we'll figure out who you're going to be.
- Chuck Palahniuk

Optimism sprouts from the knowledge that you are in control of your own life, not your past and not those around you. Part of being in control is taking responsibility for how you feel. This means not just admitting to uncomfortable feelings but then examining your circumstances to see what can be done to change these feelings at the source.
- Augusten Burroughs

You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.
- Augusten Burroughs

And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?
- Candace Bushnell

Your life right now is a reflection of your past thoughts. That includes all the great things, and all the things you consider not so great. Since you attract to you what you think about most, it is easy to see what your dominant thoughts have been on every subject of your life, because that is what you have experienced. Until now!
- Rhonda Byrne

Journeys to relive your past?' was the Khan's question at this point, a question which could also have been formulated: 'Journeys to recover your future?'
And Marco's answer was: 'Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveller recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will
never have.
- Italo Calvino

One of the most dynamic and significant changes you can make in your life is to make the commitment to drop all negative references to your past, to begin living now.
- Richard Carlson

Your past experiences will flavour your future ones, that is human nature.
- Deborah Cater

There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about yourself. Your connection to your former life is like a dream or delirium, and that person who you once were is merely a fond acquaintance, or a beloved character from a storybook. This is how memory becomes nostalgia. They are two very different things - the same way that a person is different from a photograph of a person.
- Dan Chaon

Don't use your past as an excuse, excuse your excuses and take action now!!!
- Bernard Kelvin Clive

yarn, n.
Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.
Knit me a sweater out of your best stories. Not the day's petty injustices. Not the glimmer of a seven-eights-forgotten moment from your past. Not something that somebody said to somebody, who then told it to you. No, I want a yarn. It doesn't have to be true.
- David Levithan

All the events of your past have formed a lens, or paradigm, through which you see the world. And since no one's past is exactly like anyone else's, no two people see alike.
- Sean Covey

Best way to describe life could be suffering from your past or could just be a moment spend with heart full of satisfaction.
- Santosh Kalwar

I won't lie. I want to beat the hell out of any man who's had youyou'd be smart to keep them the hell away from mebut nothing in your past can change how I feel about you.
- Sylvia Day

Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.
- Sarah Dessen

But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.
- Sarah Dessen

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
- Charles Dickens

I mean, when you've had a problem in your past, whether it's attributed directly to high cholesterol or not, you want to lower your cholesterol. You want to eat healthy. You want to feel healthy. You want to have a little more energy.
- Mike Ditka

Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbors and colleagues, and to help prevent divorces thanks to the sheer bother of arguing over who owns what.
- J P Donleavy

Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Listen: those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.
- Rick Warren

In this bright future you can't forget your past.
- Bob Marley

Create your future from your future not your past.
- Werner Erhard

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
- Marilyn Ferguson

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

You often say,'I would give, but only to the deserving.'
The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.
They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and his nights, is worthy of all else from you.
And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream.
- Kahlil Gibran

If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.
- Eckhart Tolle

Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only - finding out that there is set down in some old book somebody just like me, and to know that I shall only act her part; making me sad, that's all. The best is not to remember your nature and your past doings have been just like thousands' and thousands', and that your coming life and doings'll be like thousands' and thousands'.
- Thomas Hardy

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
- Charles J Givens

When your future arrives, will you blame your past?
- Robert Half

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
- William Least Heatmoon

When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
- William Least Heatmoon

You can never run from your past; it defines who you are today. But, use your Awo given intelligence and enjoy the future...because THAT only comes once.' VAALBARA The Land of Shadows
- Michelle Horst

You can't run from feelings, Charity. You have to face them. Otherwise your future will look just like your past.
- Elizabeth Jane Howard

No one stays the same, David. Everything you are is a direct result of something that's affected you in your past, whether it was horrible or wonderful -- no one has the right to destroy themselves because they can't deal with the pain. You have to learn from it. It's not over--the good in your life--it's not over until your dead.
- A M Hudson

And let me tell you - carrying sad memories will wear you out. You've got to put them down walk away. Do whatever you must to put emotional space between yourself and your past. That's the only way you're going to make it through.
- Angela Elwell Hunt

You can't let your past hold your future hostage.
- Ll Cool J

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.
- Jayz

Just as you choose to get up every day, go to your job, and drive the same car, you decide how much of an impact your past has on you - today.
- Darren L Johnson

Sometime we get so addicted to murmuring about the past and blaming the past for everything that we miss our whole future. You're not going to enjoy your future, and you're not going to enjoy your right now, if all you can do is be guilty and ashamed and afraid of your past.
- Joyce Meyer

May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.
- P B Kerr

All morning I'd felt the strange disjuncture that comes from reconnecting with your past. There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.
- Barbara Kingsolver

The present is what is happening when you strip away all the resentments of your past and all the worries you have about your future.
- John Kuypers

Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing about how you look and how people see you. Be afraid of not getting your writing done.
- Anne Lamott

Waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into chronological order before fortifying yourself for the present.
- Dennis Lehane

Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.
- Alphonsus Liguori

Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now.
- Bill Loguidice

Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?
- Lawrence G Lovasik

There's the life you live and the life you leave behind. But what you share with someone else - especially someone you love - that's not just how you bury your past. It's how you write your future.
- Brad Meltzer

So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit.
- Alan Moore

'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.
- Deborah Norville

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen

In life it's not how you fall but how you get up that really counts! Don't let mistakes from your past haunt and hold you back...always keep moving forward in your life
- Timothy Pina

Nothing Can Change Your Past...But Not Worrying About Things To Come, Will Help Change Future.
- Timothy Pina

You rile this gal and she'll go wildcat on your ass.
Patti (Pat) Canella- Dockland murders/Ghosts of your past.
- Alan Place

You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.
- Anthony Robbins

Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.
- Anna Quindlen

Are you telling me my entire life has been a dream?"
"Not your life, Greg, your past."
"Is there a distincition?"
"Of course there is. In a very real sense, everyone's past is a dream; the past isn't a real thing you can reach back and touch; it's just something in your head. Your life, which is what's going on here and now at this table, is as real as anyone's..
- Daniel Quinn

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 over them with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories. Procedural and depopulated. It's as if a neutron bomb went off and all you're left with are hospital corridors, where you're scanning the walls for familiar photographs.
- David Rakoff

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.
- Lou Reed

Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

The Angel of Death took the woman's frail hand. "Don't be afraid." she said. "Life is your past. Death, on the other hand, is your soul preparing for a new beginning. A brand new adventure, if you like." An excerpt from Paradox - Equilibrium. Book 4 in the Paradox series (release date 2013)
- Patti Roberts

Ive 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. Caleb lives in my dreams.
- C J Roberts

Call us the future from your past.
- Fred Schneider

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
- Sivananda

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
- Swami Sivananda

In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.
- Zadie Smith

Every intentional thought, word, or deed-right now and in your past-it all makes you what you are today. Your choices, not your neighbor's or your wife's or you boyfriend's-your decisions determine your karma.
- Lucie Smoker

As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men. She may be right.
- Sarah Strohmeyer

My family lives there, so I come back sometimes between shows for a couple days. I get back a couple times a year. When I was 30 to 34 I was weirded out when I came back - you know, how your past gets away from you. It's grown so much.
- Matthew Sweet

It's easy to act honorable when things are coming along and all your pastures are green.Sarah Agnes Prine
- Nancy E Turner

Living is getting knocked down time and again, then standing up time and again, and once more. It's easy to act honorable when things are coming along and all your pastures are green. Plenty difficult when the ground is dried and burned and people have connived to take even that from you. I'll sell this place, or I'll lose it. I'll go on. People who don't have hard times aren't living.
- Nancy E Turner

Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.
- E B White

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
- Denis Waitley

But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even.
- Irvine Welsh

When your past shows up to haunt you, make sure it comes after supper so it doesn't ruin your whole day.
- Jay Wickre

Your dominant thoughts from your past have produced your today. Your dominant thoughts today will produce your future.
- Orrin Woodward

Your past cannot stop you from a bright future, but an improper interpretation of your past can be fatal to your future.
- Orrin Woodward

You can't dwell in your past but move forward, look forward. That's it.
- Caroline Wozniacki

Did you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the intervening years seemed brief, dreamlike, impersonalthe motions of a May afternoon surrendered to routine?
- Roger Zelazny