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.
Oh! To live alone, always alone, in the midst of the crowd that surrounds me, without a word of love ever coming to gladden my soul, without a friendly hand reaching out to me!
There are still many souls to be won for Christ,” she answered with quiet dignity, eyes downcast—but not, he figured, in humility. “Even here. Perhaps, especially here. Where better to spread his love, than a country just recently ravaged by wa...
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.
Not everything in your past qualifies to be called HISTORY; only the things in the past that shaped your FUTURE
Living in the past is a conscious or an unconscious choice made through a connection to the past.
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.
...But if we are to say anything important, if fiction is to stay relevant and vibrant, then we have to ask the right questions. All art fails if it is asked to be representative—the purpose of fiction is not to replace life anymore than it is mean...
When you initially forgive, it is like letting go of a hot iron. There is initial pain and the scars will show, but you can start living again.
The past that Southerners are forever talking about is not a dead past--it is a chapter from the legend that our kinfolks have told us, it is a living past, living for a reason. The past is a part of the present, it is a comfort, a guide, a lesson.
I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.
Faith may be encouraged by what has happened in the past, or what is thought to have happened in the past, but the only proof of it is in the future.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
At times it may seem as though you and your past are one. Sometimes we fail to differentiate between what has happened to us and who we are today. If you have a hard time getting beyond that damaging mind-set let me encourage you right now. You are n...
