Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Votes: 3
BuddhaRight actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past. Votes: 2
Tryon EdwardsI must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs. Votes: 2
Mick JaggerWe always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present. Votes: 2
Marina AbramovicI understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure. Votes: 1 Chen Shui-bian
In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one's birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one's own. Votes: 1 J. M. Coetzee
In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen. Votes: 1 Jacky Ickx
I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about. Votes: 1 Jung Chang
Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it's accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward. Votes: 3 Oprah Winfrey
I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure. Votes: 1 Chen Shui-bian
A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world. Votes: 1 Ibrahim Babangida
I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate. Votes: 2 Ed Gillespie
Germany's like Wisconsin, but with, like, a really bad past. Votes: 3 Daniel Tosh
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past. Votes: 3 Anne Lamott
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. Votes: 3 Lewis B. Smedes
So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important. Votes: 1 Gunther Schuller
You can't change the past but you can change everything else. Take your first step toward making a significant change in your life, today. Votes: 4 Hal Elrod
The Super Bowl is a game. Life is for real. What I went through helped me get to where I am today. I won't forget. I can't forget. Because a man who forgets his past sometimes loses his soul and forgets where to go in the future. Votes: 1 Junior Seau
Changing your life means changing your past. Votes: 3 Neville Goddard
Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough. Votes: 1 James Hillman
Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone. Votes: 1 Taylor Caldwell
No matter what you have gone through in your youth, it is about who you choose to be in life. You can define your own destiny. You can be stronger than a very difficult past and overcome it. Votes: 3 Angelina Jolie
Sadly, cinemas with film as the primary source are disappearing. We need to remain open to change. That does not require one to divorce the past but to respect and process both the present and the future. Votes: 3 Robert Richardson
What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter? Votes: 4 Charlotte Bronte
Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future. Votes: 2 Michelle Cruz
America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered by a thousand cicumstances. Votes: 4 Israel Shenker
We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery. Votes: 1 Ali Smith
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. Votes: 4 Ethel Barrymore
Once you get past funny, my other qualities are so below average. It's not like I'm handy. Votes: 1 Seth Meyers
It was a limitation of human consciousness: We live only in the future and past, we cannot perceive now. Now occupies no space, a hypothetical gap between future and past. Only an exceptional few could feel now athletes and jazzmen and, yes, thieves... Votes: 3 William Landay
Create your future from your future not your past. Votes: 2 Werner Erhard
Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me! Votes: 3 David Lynch
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today. Votes: 3 Harriet Beecher Stowe
But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived. Votes: 2 Gordon Parks
Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present. Votes: 2 Jerome Hines
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. Votes: 2 Lewis B. Smedes
If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption. Votes: 3 Josh McDowell
Basically, I don't ever move too far past the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, because it's of first importance. And I make sure it's of first importance with anyone I'm talking to. It all comes down to that, really, when you get right down to it. So it's not complex. Jesus removed our sins and guarantees we can be raised from the dead. Votes: 1 Phil Robertson
The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different. Votes: 1 Jonathan Sacks
Trying to plan for the future without knowing the past is like trying to plant cut flowers. Votes: 3 David Boorstin
A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past. Votes: 4 Daisaku Ikeda
A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation. Votes: 3 Stephen King
Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change. Votes: 3 Atul Purohit
I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind. Votes: 3 Jennifer Capriati
We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent. The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret and remove the burden of our sins. His Atonement allows us to leave the past behind and move forward with clean hands, a pure heart, and a determination to do better and especially to become better. Votes: 2 Dieter F. Uchtdorf
You gotta keep things moving. If leaving behind the past means you can have a better future, then, sure, why not? Votes: 3 Lisa Mangum
If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them. Votes: 1 Helena Blavatsky
You can make the future, but it starts with leaving the past. Votes: 4 Immortal Technique
I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind. Votes: 1 Jennifer Capriati
People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind. Votes: 1 Joel Osteen
In my view, Asian countries have learnt the lessons from the past and significantly enhanced their capabilities to fend off risks. Votes: 3 Li Keqiang
I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel right. Votes: 4 Phil Anselmo
I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future. Votes: 2 LaToya Jackson
Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present. Votes: 2 Petra Nemcova
You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror - and you know that power is flawed - it is very hard to get past that. Votes: 1 Michael Palmer
I don't look into negative things. Go past mistakes and look forward. Votes: 1 Kapil Dev
Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future. Votes: 1 Mahatma Gandhi
I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface. Votes: 1 Christian Slater
Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past. Votes: 4 Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all. Votes: 3 Ken Kesey
Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change. Votes: 1 Atul Purohit
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past. Votes: 4 Jean Henri Fabre
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. Votes: 2 Tony Robbins
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. Votes: 2 Lewis B. Smedes
God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion. Votes: 2 Pliny the Elder
What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now. Votes: 3 William Glasser
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. Votes: 1 Alan Watts
Attachment to the past and fears concerning the future not only govern the way you select the things you own but also represent the criteria by which you make choices in every aspect of your life, including your relationships with people and your job. Votes: 1 Marie Kondo
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. Votes: 2 Winston Churchill
Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come. Votes: 2 Eleanor Roosevelt
With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment. Votes: 3 Jami Attenberg
Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices. Votes: 3 Barbara Kingsolver
It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future. Votes: 3 Jean Rostand
And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership. Votes: 1 Steve Case
Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money. Votes: 1 Jerry Saltz
If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter. Votes: 3 Charles Bukowski
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. Votes: 1 Napoleon Bonaparte
A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences. Votes: 4 Maisie Williams
I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions. Votes: 4 Rachel Roy
I've been blessed with a lot of things in life, but God did not give me rhythm. Still, I love to dance - which past girlfriends always found hilarious. Votes: 3 Blake Mycoskie
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? Votes: 3 Camille Paglia
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. Votes: 1 Marcus Garvey
For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it. Votes: 1 Les Claypool
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. Votes: 2 Wayne Dyer
Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him. Votes: 2 Sylvia Browne
I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him. Votes: 3 William H. Macy
I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past. Votes: 2 Yvonne Craig
Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak. Votes: 4 Marilyn Monroe
I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life. Votes: 3 Maggie Smith
Why couldn't Sam really be a boy my age, with no more experience than I had? No past lives, past loves.Why couldn't he be only for me?" Votes: 3 Jodi Meadows
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts. Votes: 4 Philip Roth
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. Votes: 1 Lewis B. Smedes
We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices. Votes: 4 Carl Levin
And the university's reputation will only continue to grow as stories like Elaine's are spread. Delaware State University's motto 'a past to honor, a future to insure,' couldn't be any more fitting for this transitional period you are going through. Votes: 1 Michael N. Castle
Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed. Votes: 3 William Vickrey
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. Votes: 3 Gail Buckley
Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They have trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread. Votes: 2 H. P. Lovecraft
To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward. Votes: 3 John C. Maxwell
Career is the stringing together of opportunities and jobs. Mix in public opinion and past regrets. Add a dash of future panic and a whole lot of financial uncertainty. Career is something that fools you into thinking you are in control and then takes pleasure in reminding you that you aren't. Career is the thing that will not fill you up and will never make you truly whole. Votes: 4 Amy Poehler
Never carry the baggage of your past relationships on the honeymoon of your future relationships. Votes: 3 Faraaz Kazi
I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it. Votes: 6 Brittany Murphy
I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it. Votes: 2 Brittany Murphy
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes. Votes: 4 Denis Waitley
The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense. Votes: 4 R. K. Milholland
In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. Votes: 3 Thomas Carlyle
People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state. Votes: 2 Robyn Hitchcock
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. Votes: 1 George Carlin
I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a glass building, but it's in my mind about getting older and finding out what I'm going to look like as it unfolds - or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land. Votes: 1 Dave Matthews
Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need to release the past and rise above fear, doubt or resignation. Votes: 3 Debbie Ford
The un-happiest of mortals is that man who insists upon reliving the past, over and over in imagination - continually criticizing himself for past mistakes - continually condemning himself for past sins. Votes: 3 Maxwell Maltz
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Votes: 4 George Santayana
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Votes: 4 George Santayana
So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important. Votes: 3 Gunther Schuller
I feel like I'm part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean, we're actually taking pictures of ourselves and posting them on Facebook, and keeping in touch with people that should have been out of our lives 15 years ago. Votes: 4 Diablo Cody
I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future. Votes: 4 Paul Auster
The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years. Votes: 3 Susan Glaspell
Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real. Votes: 4 Dodie Smith
time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present. Votes: 3 T. S. Eliot
Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low. Votes: 1 Eric Liu
It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also suggests that this celebration of the end of slavery is an important and enriching part of the history and heritage of the United States. Votes: 3 Mark Foley
I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened. Votes: 1 Felix Dennis
Whatever is newly expensive has two attributes: wonderful past returns and, in most cases, lousy future returns. Votes: 3 Robert D. Arnott
Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify! Votes: 5 Henry David Thoreau
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. Votes: 4 George Orwell
Don't ever think that you can't change the past. Votes: 4 Kate Bush
The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad. Votes: 1 Bruce Springsteen
As far as you are concerned the present is your point of action, focus and power, and from that point of volition you form both your future and past. Realizing this, you will understand that you are not at the mercy of a past over which you have no control. Votes: 3 Seth