Live today, forget the past.
The past is past and I guess if you live in the past, you cease to live.
If the past, by bringing surprises, did not resemble the past previous to it (what I call the past's past), then why should our future resemble our current past?
Past is past... no it's not! People are always fond of saying that, but what's past is never past; not entirely.
Is any life so isolated that it lives only in the past and not in the present and future, too?
So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.
Living in the past has one thing going for it; it's cheaper!
What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.
what he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a past that changed gradually as he advanced on his journey, because the traveller's past changes according to the route he has followed: not the immediat...
More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself...
Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.
the past is the past think about now. not the past. we need to move on.
History is about the past. Yet it exists only in the present – the moment of its creation as history provides us with a narrative constructed after the events with which it is concerned. The narrative must then relate to the moment of its creation ...
Learn from the past, but don’t live in the past.
Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?
What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.
The past should always remain in the past because the present needs your attention.
First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
If you don't remember the past, then you never truly forget it.
Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.
I'm not someone who lives in the past; I find other people live in my past. I live in the present and the future.
