Quotes about Past

It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past.

She was still haunted by the ghost of the cake she had drowned.

When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion—its message becomes meaningless.

To us, recollection is a holy act; we sanctify the present by remembering the past. To us Jews, the essence of faith is memory. To believe is to remember.

The best prophet of the future is our past.

We cannot escape history.

We are not to forget but to overcome. That happens through gratitude. We are not supposed to solve the unsolved puzzle of the past and fall into tortuous brooding, but to let even the incomprehensible stand and return it peacefully to God's hand. This happens through humility. "He has done everything well.

In the good old days when times were bad No amount of money could buy from me The memories that I have of then No amount of money could pay me To go back and live through it again

Nostalgia comes with the smell of rain.

In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history.

Don't make excuses, don't blame the past. The rest of your life can be the best of your life!

Gratitude changes your perspective about life. You see the future, experience the present, and remember the past in a dramatically different way.