Past - Quotes
People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
I don`t live in either my past or my future. I`m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you`ll be a happy man. [...] Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we`re living now.
You can`t look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.
Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: `If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?` And whenever the answer has been `No` for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Who so neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead to the future.
We have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about past or future. Happiness is in the now.
I love my past. I love my present. I`m not ashamed of what I`ve had, and I`m not sad because I have it no longer.
I`ve never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don`t understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
In the past the warring nations
Did not follow any precept:
The strong plundered what he could, and
Everything he looted, he kept.