Top 1200 Past Love Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Third, consider the insistency of an idea. The insistency of a past idea with reference to the present is a quantity which is less, the further back that past idea is, and rises to infinity as the past idea is brought up into coincidence with the present.

Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than the present. It isn't. Or wasn't. Nostalgics want to cuddle the past like a puppy. But the past has bloody teeth and bad breath. I look into its mouth like a sorrowing dentist.

I love and have respect and admiration for everybody in my past. I don't have any animosity toward anybody.

The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'

Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once- But it is no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.

I just love drawing on past human cultures; that's a thrill for me.

True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even vicariously for those who cannot speak for themselves any longer. We have to accept that we do what we do for generations past, present and yet to come. That is what makes a community a community or a people a people-for better or for worse.

I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

Humans can't live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the past. So it's a veil of tears, man. I don't know anything that's going to benefit me now, except love. I just need an overwhelming amount of love. And a nap. Mostly a nap.

I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.

We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.

When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.

It was important to me to make a film where I don't show the past but where the spectators can see the past.

While the past is the past, it often affects our decisions later on in life.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

The future for me is already a thing of the past - You were my first love and you will be my last

To do this, you can bring in nothing from the past. So the more psychology you've studied, the harder it will be to empathize. The more you know the person, the harder it will be to empathize. Diagnoses and past experiences can instantly knock you off the board. This doesn't mean denying the past. Past experiences can stimulate what's alive in this moment. But are you present to what was alive then or what the person is feeling and needing in this moment?

Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.

We can't save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it's worth trying.

I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.

So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.

The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one’s dreams would have no meaning.

You know, some people can't get past their past, I guess. I certainly haven't.

What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.

Your religions are boring you, your philosophies are boring you, your scriptures are boring you. Thousands of years of the past are the cause of your boredom. You cannot dance - you are chained to the past, you are imprisoned in the past.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

I love Abby Lee Miller. Honestly, if there's such a thing as past lives, I was definitely a dancer.

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Listen: those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.

Another misconception is that if we truly loved someone, we will never finish with our grief, as if continued sorrow is a testimonial to our love. But true love does not need grief to support its truth. Love can last in a healthy and meaningful way, once our grief is dispelled. We can honor our dead more by the quality of our continued living than by our constantly remembering the past.

Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.

Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.

If you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are, then you never grow.

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

God is life. God is life in action. The best way to say, "I love you, God," is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, "Thank you, God," is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now. Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment. Letting go of the past means you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now.

Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.

To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion.

The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.

I've been a member of some good gyms in the past. I love a good spinning class; I love a good aerobics class.

Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.

All the past has done is generated the you that you are now. Dwelling on the past isn't going to change anything.

I just love learning about the past and everything we've been through as people and as a country.

I love the mystery, the reconstruction of history, and the way past and future define each other.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.

I want a woman to walk past and say, "I would love to be in a picture with him."

But how many moments are already past! Ah! who thinks of those that are past?

Faith, Hope & Love. Faith is directed towards God, love towards others (both within the Christian fellowship and beyond it) and hope towards the future, in particular, the glorious coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Similarly, faith rests of the past; love works in the present; hope looks to the future. Every Christian without exception is a believer, a lover and a hoper. Faith, hope and love are three sure evidences of regeneration by the Holy Spirit.

Everybody's got a past. The past does not equal the future unless you live there.