The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.
Past Quotes
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.
Study the past if you would divine the future.
There is a way to look at the past. Don’t hide from it. It will not catch you – if you don’t repeat it.
To yackety-yak about the past is for me time lost. Every morning I wake up saying, ‘I’m still alive – a miracle.’ And so I keep on pushing.
Once Around the Sun – Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
Reflect upon your present blessings – of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
The past should be a springboard not a hammock.
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
