Past quotes

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

“I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.” Walt Whitman

“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.” Alan Watts

“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.” Marcus Aurelius

“You can never plan the future by the past.” Edmund Burke

“You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.” Richard Bach

“If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.” Les Brown

“But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?” Robert Browning

“If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.” George Burns

“We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.” Stephen Covey

“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” Marcus Garvey

“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana

“The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.” Barbara de Angelis

“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.” Andre Maurois

“I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.” Dwayne Johnson