Thinking Of The Past Quotes:

The past has no power over the present moment.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Positive, Wisdom, Philosophical, Stress And Anxiety, Past Happiness

We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

- Robin Sharma

source: Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.214, Jaico Publishing House

topic: Positive, Past, Special, Our Past, Positive Future

I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Thinking, Past, Ideas, Thinking Of The Past

Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.

- Dodie Smith

topic: Real, Past, Thinking, Thinking Of The Past

Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; for thinking of the past wakes regret and pain.

- Arthur Waley

source: The Arthur Waley Estate, Arthur Waley (2012). “Chinese Poems”, p.177, Routledge

topic: Pain, Regret, Past, Thinking Of The Past

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

- Craig Venter

source: YouTube Channel "Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science"/"Craig Venter - The Genius of Charles Darwin: The Uncut Interviews - Richard Dawkins", www.youtube.com. June 30, 2009.

topic: Moving, Past, Thinking, Thinking Of The Past

I dreamed of myself in a dream, and told the dream, which was mine, as if it were another person's of whom I dreamed. Indeed what is life when thinking of the past, but dreaming of a dream dreamt by another who seems to be oneself?

- Stopford Brooke

topic: Dream, Past, Thinking, Thinking Of The Past