The past is a foreign country;
they do things differently there.
-L.P. Hartley
to buy back his past.
-Oscar Wilde
All things new
But I: no shadow
The gods cast,
But I my past.
-Kathleen Raine
Man cannot learn to forget...but hangs on to the past:
however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
My yesterdays walk with me.
They keep step,
they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
-William Golding
You can only be held back by your past
if you use it to reject yourself
in the present.
-Robert Holden
Holding to the past
will deny the present.
-The Oculatum
The only way to get rid of your past
is to get a future out of it.
-Phillips Brooks
Plan not the future
within the past
-The Oculatum
What is the past
but what we choose to remember?
-Amy Tan
The past is not simply the past
but a prism through which the subject
filters his own changing self-image.
-Doris Kearns Goodwin
The past is the only dead thing
that smells sweet.
-Edward Thomas
The beauty of the past
belongs to the past.
-Margaret Bourke-White
Hide not the past
nor live there
-The Oculatum
Embrace the past
but live not there
-The Oculatum
In the carriages of the past
you can't go anywhere.
-Maxim Gorky
The past is a guide post,
not a hitching post.
-Attributed to L. Thomas Holdcraft
To grow you must be willing
to let your present and future be totally unlike your past.
Your history is not your destiny.
-Alan Cohen
Be prepared to step out of that mould
which is the creation of your past.
-N. Sri Ram
Forget the past.
The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames.
-Sri Yukteshwar
Dwell not on the past.
Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind.
-Eileen Caddy
The past is a bucket of ashes.
-Carl Sandburg
We should take from the past its fires
and not its ashes.
Jean Juares
I have no past - the steps have disappeared
the wind has blown them away.
-James Kavanaugh
Let the past drift away with the water.
-Japanese Saying
