Think about your past victories, and then look into the eye of your current obstacle and tell it that it will soon lose like your defeated obstacles.
Refusing to focus on your past disappointments creates a great opportunity for you to give an undivided attention to your present.
The beauty of the present and the future can only be seen by those who are willing to let go of the past.
To move in the forward direction is to be strong and positive enough to bury every negative experience in the past.
Never permit your negative past to come in-between you and the possibilities and opportunities that lie in your present and future.
Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.
Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.
There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
I've been able to make films over the past 10 years but still maintain my anonymity.
Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.
It is always perilous to suppose that the past is over and done with or that it can ever safely be disconnected from the pressing concerns of the present.
There appears to be value in getting past a mentality that good things can only rest in good things.
I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.
I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.
With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.
I knew I never wanted to become an archaeologist. But at school I became intrigued by what people were doing on an everyday basis in the past.
