The most profound way our past affects our present is through our relationships. — Amir Levine
Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones. — Steve Martin
People and relationships never stop being a work in progress — Nora Roberts
Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind. — Jackie Robinson
Love doesn't erase the past, but it makes the future different. — Gary Chapman
Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time. — Axl Rose
If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present. — Les Brown
Relationships end, but they don't end your life. — Steve Martin
In life, there are those relationships where you really love someone, but they're just not right for you and there's a little bittersweet feel to it. — Jennifer Morrison
That which is created in a relationship can be fixed in a relationship. — Murray Bowen
Work on your relationships... Relationships need renewal or they die. — Bo Sanchez
The past has relevance, but it's not absolute. — Howard Marks
It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party. — Nick Hornby
I’ve been in relationships in the past where communication wasn’t great, and when it is, it makes it so much easier to talk to each other. — Hannah Bronfman
Short Past Relationship Quotes
If you don't have a good relationship with the now, you don't have a good
relationship with life. — Eckhart Tolle
Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family. — Jerry B. Jenkins
If you don't make peace with your past it will keep showing up in your present. — Wayne Dyer
In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past. — Dalai Lama
Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy. — Zygmunt Bauman
My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them. — Jennifer O'Neill
...maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one. — Ally Carter
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Past Relationship Image Quotes
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
Your Past Relationship Quotes
Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period. — Wayne Dyer
Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing. — Brian Weiss
You got your guards up, I do too, there's things we might discover. Cause you got a past and I do too, we're perfect for each other. — Drake
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
You will never improve your life if you keep searching for happiness in the same toxic people and places that you lost it. That person is still an *sshole, that relationship is still toxic, that job still sucks, your past is past. You have to look forward to moving forward. — Steven Bartlett
The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it. — Alan Moore
When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past." — Darren Johnson
Don't let the past steal your present. Your past has not defined, deterred or defeated you. It has only strengthened who you are today.
If the past is not resolved, future relationships will suffer. Let your heart heal, before you open the door to another. — Leon Brown
Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run. — Lauren Oliver
Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go. — Oprah Winfrey
She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life. — Junot Diaz
In My Past Relationship Quotes
I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it. — Brittany Murphy
One of the most freeing discoveries these past few years in my relationship with God is discovering that God is not a belief system or a fixed set of theological propositions. — Jim Palmer
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
When thinking about life, remember this: no amount of guilt can change the past, and no amount of anxiety can change the future.
The fact that I'm very close with my past relationships is something I pride myself on. My mom is still close to her first husband. It's nice to be able to enjoy someone in a different form. — Kate Bosworth
I don't mind letting people in a little bit, but I have learned from the past not to talk too much about my relationships and to keep things as private as possible. — Leona Lewis
My philosophy on life is that we're here to love and to learn. And I've learned a lot, so I can't say "I wish this didn't happen or I didn't make that movie." And I take responsibility for being open [about relationships] in the past. I have to, and now I'm doing what I can to make it different. — Jennifer Lopez
It's not the future that you're afraid of. It's repeating the past that makes you anxious.
My relationships have been well publicised in the past but I am just a normal guy, really. — Enrique Iglesias
I've developed some deep relationships over the past couple of years blogging and I realize that those relationships manifest themselves in the links I find when I do my x a daily ego search over at Technorati. — Jason Calacanis
We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate - thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising. — Maya Angelou
There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them. — Jo Walton
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.
Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now. — Buddha
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. — Barbara De Angelis
We are kept from the experience of Spirit because our inner world is cluttered with past traumas . . . As we begin to clear away this clutter, the energy of divine light and love begins to flow through our being. — Thomas Keating
When the past calls, let it go to voicemail. It has nothing new to say.
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. — Townes Van Zandt
If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead. — Erich von Stroheim
Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter. — Paulo Coelho
Old Relationship Quotes
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. — Dalai Lama
Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth. — Winona LaDuke
The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness. — Neale Donald Walsch
If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
It is best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new. — Danish Proverbs
We feel guilt when we no longer want to associate with old friends and colleagues who haven’t changed. — Naval Ravikant
Women’s loyalty has to be earned with trust and affection, rather than barbaric rituals. The time has come to leave the old ways of suffering behind — Waris Dirie
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
We feel guilt when we no longer want to associate with old friends and colleagues who haven’t changed. The price, and marker, of growth. — Naval Ravikant
You are never too old to reinvent yourself. — Steve Harvey
The only way a relationship will last is if you see it as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take. — Tony Robbins
The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. — Stephen Covey
Previous Love Quotes
Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives. — Hudson Taylor
But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat. — Molly Haskell
Love enmeshes you in your partner's unique set of karmic complications, so make sure you're very interested in his or her problems. Love is a laboratory where you can uncover secrets about yourself that have previously been hidden, so be ravenously curious. — Rob Brezsny
I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed. — Alain de Botton
I'm not putting myself up as the epitome of virtue. I certainly am living a non-traditional life. But it is also a loving life and a very supportive one. I think that both in this, and the previous relationship, I think that I've been doing the best I can. — Hugh Hefner
The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective. — Robert Breault
That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has a shorter task assigned to it except insofar as the previous generation shirked its task and deluded itself. — Soren Kierkegaard
When you place a value on things like health, love, sex and other things, and learn to place a material value on what you've previously discounted for being merely intangible ... you realize you're much, much wealthier than you ever imagined. — Rory Sutherland
His justice is the love that gives to each one of His creatures the gifts that His mercy has previously decreed. And His mercy is His love, doing justice to its own exigencies, and renewing the gift which we had failed to accept. — Thomas Merton
How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen! — Charles Dickens
Future Relationship Quotes
You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? — Bob Marley
If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment. — Eckhart Tolle
A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future. — Bruce Barton
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future. — Dr. An Wang
Relationship and connectedness are the pre-condition for change. Every meeting, every process, every training program has to get people connected first. Otherwise the content falls on deaf ears. So small groups are an essential building block to any future you want to create. — Peter Block
Even in relationships, I don't get my hopes up or anything, especially not right now because I know I'm young and I've got plenty of time later in the future. — Christina Milian
Loving the world destroys our relationship with God, it denies our faith in God, and it discounts our future with God. — David Jeremiah
If we’re dating, I want to be your second priority. I want your first priority to be you, your ambitions, your life, and your future because my priority right now is me and mine. Finding happiness and security alone is crucial to finding it together. — Steven Bartlett
I have a very bad relationship with the future. We don't get on. We just ignore each other. — Pete Doherty
The only hope for developing a new civilization is to accept responsibility for improving our lives through knowledge, understanding, and a deeper comprehension of humanity’s relationship to natural processes of evolution. Our future is determined by effort we put forth to achieve this transition. — Jacque Fresco
Your Past Quotes
There comes a point in your life when you realize:
Who matters,
Who never did,
Who won't anymore,
And who always will.
So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future. — Adam Lindsay Gordon
Perfecting the past blurs your focus of the future. — Marvin Davis
Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level. — T. D. Jakes
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. — Johnny Cash
When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old. — T. D. Jakes
Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time, past, present or future, and enter Peace. — Adi Shankara
Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself. — Neville Goddard
Don't let others define you. Don't let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination and there are no limits on what you can do or be. — Michael Josephson
Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow. — Jay-Z
Past Memories Quotes
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. — Marcel Proust
Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories. — Steven Wright
NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination. — Osho
I look back at the past as fond memories but I'm able to move forwards in a new light, like I'm reborn. — Brendon Urie
You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories. — Deborah Moggach
The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. — Robert M. Pirsig
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. — Lewis B. Smedes
The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love - or any other experience - must take place in the present. — Jack Kornfield
The past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of our present conceptions. The present itself vanishes as soon as we try to grasp it. So why bother with attempting to establish an illusion of solid ground? — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Be still. it takes no effort to be still; it is utterly simple. When your mind is still, you have no name, you have no past, you have no relationships, you have no country, you have no spiritual attainment, you have no lack of spiritual attainment. There is just the presence of beingness with itself. — Gangaji
...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously. — Isabel Allende
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past. — Anne Lamott
For me, the best things in life - meaningful work, meaningful relationships, interesting experiences, good food, sleep, music, ideas, sex, and other basic needs and pleasures - are not, past a certain point, materially improved upon by having a lot of money. — Ray Dalio
Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another. — Terry Tempest Williams
The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time. — Caroline Myss
Thats the fun of going to a high school reunion: its seeing the people who you were close to all those years ago, and re-exploring the relationships of the past. — Jon Hurwitz
Each person with his or her history of being accepted or rejected, with his or her past history of inner pain and difficulties in relationships, is different. But in each one there is a yearning for communion and belonging, but at the same time a fear of it. Love is what we most want, yet it is what we fear the most. — Jean Vanier
Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free. — Louise Hay
Understand the nature and influence of repeating patterns, from childhood experiences or even from past lives. Wthout understanding, patterns tend to repeat, unnecessarily damaging the relationship. — Brian Weiss
Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history. (243) — Norman Doidge
Absolutely. Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future. I questioned a lot about my relationship with your father. People make spontaneous decisions based off of their hearts all the time. There's so much more to relationships than just love. — Colleen Hoover
Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past. — Dan Brown
Mad cause he aint like me... Oh you mad cause nobody ever did it like me. — Drake
He was already looking at their relationship through the lens of the past tense. It puzzled her, the ability of romantic love to mutate, how quickly a loved one could become a stranger. Where did the love go? Perhaps real love was familial, somehow, linked to blood, since love for children did not die as romantic love did. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I wanted people to trust me, despite anything they'd heard. And more than that, I wanted them to know me. Not the stuff they thought they knew about me. No, the real me. I wanted them to get past the rumors. To see beyond the relationships I once had, or maybe still had but that they didn't agree with. — Jay Asher
Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was. — Scott Westerfeld
She should have remembered her past experiences in the relationship wars and not let herself get so excited. Evidently her hormones had overruled her common sense and she had become drunk on ovarian wine, the most potent, sanity- destroying substance in the universe. — Linda Howard
The body stores the trauma of our lives in muscular rigidity, thereby keeping us stuck in the past. When we release the tension in the body and align ourselves with gravity, we take a new stand in life. This allows us to be at ease with ourselves and in harmony in our relationship to others and to our planet. — Joseph Heller
Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity. — Mark Hyman, M.D.
When a relationship dies do we ever really give up the ghost or are we forever haunted by the spirits of relationships past? — Sarah Jessica Parker
One's entire life - his mental state, his health, his relationships, the material gains that he may or may not make - are all effects which have been set in motion by causes to be found somewhere in one's background, in this life or previous ones. — Brad Steiger
Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures. — Aaron Eckhart
A good relationship is when someone accepts your past, supports your present and encourages your future. — Zig Ziglar
The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past. — Timothy Keller
Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past — Emily Giffin
But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past. — Donna Rice
My business is retrospective = I'm looking at the past, they all passed away - and it's a big pleasure, that's the point of collecting. It's certainly a [better] quality of life you have living with [these] works, but [I] also [value] the relationship we have with the artists. — Patrick Seguin
My relationship with my mom has really evolved since The Hills. We had a very hard time getting through that, and I didn't talk to her for almost two years, but since then we have learned to get over the past and move forward. — Heidi Montag
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