Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.Gautama Buddha
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33 quotes in the QuotePlace collection contain the word ‘past’. Browse them all below — every card opens its own full quote page.
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Charles Dickens
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.George Santayana
He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.Gabriel García Márquez
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.Marcus Garvey
Study the past, if you would divine the future.Confucius
One faces the future with ones past.Pearl Buck
Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.Ellen Gilchrist
You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.Eckhart Tolle
Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!Charlotte Perkins Gilman
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.Richard Bach
The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.Eckhart Tolle
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.Vernon Cooper
Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.Ralph Blum
By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better and we can prepare for a better future.Thich Nhat Hanh
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.John F. Kennedy
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.Marcus Aurelius
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.Stephen Covey
It can't be spring if your heart is filled with past failures.Byron Pulsifer
No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.Gautama Buddha
Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.Charles A. Lindbergh
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.Percy Shelley
I love my past. I love my present. Im not ashamed of what Ive had, and Im not sad because I have it no longer.Colette
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.Maya Angelou
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.Paul Boese
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.Melody Beattie
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.Tony Robbins
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.Deepak Chopra
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.F. Scott Fitzgerald
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.Abraham Lincoln
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.Wayne Dyer
Your past does not equal your future.Tony Robbins
The past does not equal the future.Tony Robbins