#past

"Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many other past societies also struggled to solve. Some of those past societies failed (like the Greenland Norse) and others succeeded ... The past offers us a rich database from which we can learn in order that we may keep on succeeding."

"How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world,"I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?"

"My ex-girlfriend was exquisite, while my current girlfriend is merely quisite. The ex always makes the past seem more excellent than the present."

"The sunset sky fades from blue to orange over Gainesville, Florida, and what I lost is less than what I gained. I gained love, I lost love, and if could do it all again, I would."

"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future."

"I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing."

"I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them."

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

"We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one."

"‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time."

"He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes."

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present."

"The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go."

"Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow."

"I hide how I feel, and I hide the fact that I hide how I feel, but I can't bury the past without having a funeral of the heart."

"You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right."

"We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still."

"It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out."

"Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity."

"The past is made out of facts... I guess the future is just hope."