Past Quotes Quotes

“You have to let it go if you're going to keep moving, if you're going to survive, because the past doesn't need a future. It has no use for what comes next. The past is greedy, always swallowing you up, always taking. If you don't hold it back, if you don't dam it up, it will spread and take and drown.
The past is not a receding horizon. Rather, it advances one moment at a time, marching steadily forward until it has claimed everything and we become again who we were; we become ghosts when the past catches us. I can't live as long as my past does. It's one or the other.”
― Brandon Taylor, Real Life

“Enjoy the precious moments of the present while they
LAST .
Don't waste them overplanning the future,
or overthinking
the PAST.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“I have made peace with my past and I am not afraid to revisit her whenever she beckons.”
― Eduvie Donald

“I picked up a little stone and threw it into the pond. As the ripples faded, so did my smiles. I knew I could do nothing to bring those ripples back.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Our past is part of us. And we can let it own us or we can let it shape us.”
― Melanie A. Smith, Pompous Paramedic

“He grits his teeth and moves forward. He doesn't know any other way. No one has taught him nothin'. He's on a continuous countdown clock with confronting his chaotic past and this time his ghosts have met him in his nightmares.”
― Locke Wood, Sunflowers & Scorched Earth: The History of American Vigilante Expression and The Found Works of B.L. Ashburn.

“My friend (and ex-lover) Nicole says I’m just a restless soul. My barhopping friend Mark thinks it’s just a premature middle-age crisis; I just celebrated my 33rd birthday last week, after all. I have another theory. It’s not original, so I can’t call it the James Garraty Theory of Life. Want to hear it? Here goes. No matter how old you get, how affluent or successful you become, you’ll never outrun the ghosts of your past. Particularly the ghosts of your adolescence. Put simply, you can graduate from high school, but your soul will never leave that place.”
― Alex Diaz-Granados, Reunion: A Story: A Novella

“The past always finds a way to catch up with us. Remember that.”
― Artnoob 100, Till Our Worlds Collide Vol. 1: (Light Novel)

“You need to live in the present and not fantasize about the past you can't bring back to life.”
― Ojingiri Hannah

“Having a positive past depends very little on what events actually occurred.
What happened to you doesn’t matter as much as what story you decide to tell yourself about what happened.
What happened to you doesn’t matter as much as what emotions you feel about what happened.

We get to choose what story we attach.
Grief expert and psychiatrist Gordon Livingston, M.D., said, “The stories of our lives, far from being fixed narratives, are under constant revision.

Psychologically, the past, present, and future exist together here and now. Our present state is largely what determines those critical past narratives.

With deliberate practice, you can develop the skill of positively reframing any past experience into a gain. With practice, you can get better and quicker at converting pain into growth and purpose. This is what psychologists call post-traumatic growth.

Can you feel genuinely glad you went through your hardest moments?
Without those, you wouldn’t know what you now know or be who you are.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“This is not the sound I grew up with. Not the sound I am accustomed to. I don’t want to wake up to the noise of bulldozers. Birds used to wake me up in the morning with their cherubic songs. Where are they now?”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Our Nepal, Our Pride

“The ghosts from my past float behind my eyes and haunt me in my dreams.”
― Carolyn Watson-Dubisch, After The Robots Died, Issue #2, The Eye in the Sand

“Learn from the past.
Live in the present.
Look forward to the future.
Love all along.”
― Jennifer Spredemann

“When the future begins to run out, the journey to the past in our minds increases tremendously because there is no longer any room to go beyond, so we go back to expand our lives in a virtual way!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The past is a beautiful illusion trap of sweet memories. the more you remember it the more you get trapped in it and thus your life never changes.”
― Shiva Negi

“You hold on to what has departed,
as though it comprises all of your energy.
Have you had a glimpse of your existence?
If you are one with the ocean,
which scientists have barely
even explored the opening of it,
does it occur, that perhaps your existence
is a magnitude of infinity?
You're limitless, let what has departed go.”
― Elelwani Anita Ravhuhali, The Voice Of Adequacy: Silencing Self-Doubt, Embracing Self-Love

“Not leaving the past behind is a terrible way to move forward. Look at today and tomorrow. They can be better if you don't hold onto yesterday too tightly.”
― Garima Soni - words world

“A birthday is an annual reminder: embrace the past, relish the present, and envision the future.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“I can't hold on to the past and grab for the future at the same time. I have to choose. Eventually, we all have to choose.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Other Birds

“The past is a mentor, not a captor.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“There are indeed certain sorrows that never leave our hearts. They lie dormant, hidden beneath the surface of our skin, erupting loudly when provoked by even a single foul word.”
― S. Zuppardi, The Black Shila

“We may not have the power to change the past, but we can change how the past influences our present state of being.”
― Troy Hadeed, My Name Is Love: We're Not All That Different

“Your past will determine your present, your present will soon be your past but your mindset will determine your future.”
― Marion Bekoe, I WILL BE A BILLIONAIRE: The right mindset is the first step towards the journey.

“Never meet your past, it shall kill your present and bury your future.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“success is not a day work, it is a consistent work from the past”
― Joyful Livinghub

“Regrets are the ghosts of past decisions. They haunt the present with lessons unlearned and futures unlived.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“The entire future lies in uncertainty, but a peek at the past is a luxury I do not wish to relinquish.”
― Eduvie Donald

“We’ve run out of our childhood. We’ve nowhere worthwhile to go now.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“The past is not dead. It just lived with us for some time. It will show up in the future to give you a reward.”
― Onipede Ayomide

“You are the CEO of your life. Forget about what happens in the pass and move on to prepare your future.”
― Onipede Ayomide