Quotes of Past - somelinesforyou

“ The one charm of the past is that it is the past. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ The past has no power over the present moment. ”

- Eckhart Tolle

“ It’s okay to look back at your past. Just don’t stare. ”

- Benjamin Dover

“ Be careful who you make memories with. Those things can last a lifetime. ”

- Ugo Eze

“ The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. ”

- Ralph Blum

“ Your past is just a story. And once you realize this, it has no power over you. ”

- Chuck Palahniuk

“ 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. ”

- Sophia Loren

“ Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ We need not destroy the past. It is gone. ”

- John Cage

“ Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Don’t cry over the past, it’s gone. Don’t stress about the future, it hasn’t arrived. Live in the present and make it beautiful. ”

- Unknown

“ To hold onto the past always creates suffering, even if it was wonderful. ”

- Teal Scott

“ There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind. ”

- Kiran Desai

“ I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry. ”

- Cat Stevens

“ The past is like an anchor holding us back. You have to let go of who you are to become who you will be. ”

- Unknown

“ The past is not a package one can lay away. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. ”

- Lewis Carroll

“ Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. ”

- Cormac McCarthy

“ Dwelling on the past only blinds you to the future. ”

- Andrew Boyd

“ Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. ”

- Tennessee Williams

“ I try not to live in the past, but sometimes the past lives in me. ”

- Jamie Ford

“ If you believe that feeling bad will change a past event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ Just because the past didn’t turn out like you wanted it to, doesn’t mean your future can’t be better than you’ve ever imagined. ”

- Unknown

“ So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. ”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

“ My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder. ”

- William Golding

“ Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ Pain makes you stronger, tears make you braver, and heartbreak makes you wiser. So thank the past for a better future. ”

- Unknown

“ A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. ”

- Andre Maurois

“ The longer you live in the past, the less future you have to enjoy. ”

- Unknown
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