Myles Munroe Quotes

All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.

The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.

It's okay to look back, just don't stare.

The past is not a package one can lay away.

History takes time... History makes memory.

My biggest life lesson is that the past is the past. I do my best not to bring history into my present. It ain't ever easy, but it usually creates more opportunity for joyful experiences.

I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only inasmuch as it gave me pleasure or helped me grow psychologically. That is the only thing that interests me about yesterday. I don't believe in yesterday, by the way. You know I don't believe in yesterday. I am only interested in what I am doing now.

The past is more than a memory.

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.

If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.

I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

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 had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.

I try to not go over things from the past. Learn your lessons and then let it go.

I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.

Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it then the picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.

This is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on. But there is this telling and there is such a thing as passing through.

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.