Quotes about the past

I didn’t believe in reincarnation in my past life, and I still don’t.

Woody Allen

It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.

Buckminster Fuller

Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

Woodrow Wilson

Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending yesterday.

Peter Drucker

Part of the reason why some of the relationships I’ve had in my past worked for so long is because when you’re making movies, a huge gap of time can pass when you don’t even see the person.

Julia Roberts

I am 26 and, and I don’t recover as fast as I have in the past.

Michael Phelps

The uncertainty and importance of the present reduce the past and future to comparative insignificance, and clear the mind of minor worries. And when all is over, memories remain which few men do not hold precious.

Winston Churchill

Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

Alan Watts

I release the past with ease and trust in the process of life.

Louise Hay

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

T. S. Eliot