Quotes about Past
Love interrupts the past and opens the future to new probabilities.
— Marianne Williamson
We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present.
— Marianne Williamson
What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present. Salvation
— Marianne Williamson
that is real in our past is the love we gave and the love we received.
— Marianne Williamson
Because each of us is the sum of all we have ever experienced. Only the very young have a clean slate. The rest of us must live forever with everything we have ever been.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
— Oprah Winfrey
The explanation of the blindness [in John 9] lies not in the past causes but the future purposes.
— John Piper
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
— John Quincy Adams
I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.
— Mark Twain
A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There lies the image of our past and of our future, cried Alleyne, as they rode on upon their way. Now, which is better, to till God's earth, to have happy faces round one's knee, and to love and be loved, or to sit forever moaning over one's own soul, like a mother over a sick babe?
— Arthur Conan Doyle
But children are our future!' Yes, but does that not also mean that we are their past? I don't understand why we're helping them. You don't see union factory workers throwing a benefit for robots.
— Stephen Colbert