Georges St-Pierre Quotes

I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

And we should forget, day by day, what we have done; this is true non-attachment. And we should do something new. To do something new, of course we must know our past, and this is alright. But we should not keep holding onto anything we have done; we should only reflect on it. And we must have some idea of what we should do in the future. But the future is the future, the past is the past; now we should work on something new.

For the past couple of years I was doing the party thing - going out a lot. But now I've turned 25, I feel I'm an adult.

I require distance from the past in order to grasp the future.

I've never treated anyone in my band like they're not on the same level as me. I'm not that kind of person. In the past, I have disrespected people in my band and that was my weakness. I think some people have a hard time understanding how I think.

At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.

Before I can face the future, I must first deal with the past.

Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.

Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.

I genuinely believed no one would want to marry me. I am difficult to live with. I'm selfish, quite weird and I need time on my own to think - and then I work all night long. That is difficult for someone to deal with. And it would drive me mad - I could never be my own girlfriend!

There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them, and are ever ready to correct themselves.

Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life

When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift... every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If only youth knew! Now my life will change; now I will be reborn.

You think I live in the past. You don't understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best I can

The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.

Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.

You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.

My devotion to my job started from a personal defeat: my first girlfriend's parents rejected me because i wasn't rich. I decided i would show them what a big mistake they had made.

It takes an honest look to observe our selves without judgment, and then to do something about it. Observing without judgment is the practice of yoga. Doing something about it is the stuff that makes up your life.

I learned from my past, and I now employ those lessons going forward, looking to the future - don't you think it's about time our government did, too?

Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.

Thanks to his willingness to face me, my life takes shape, my path evolves.

My diary entries allow me to keep track of all the things I would like to change about my life.

To be "integrally developed" does not mean that you have to excel in all the known intelligences, or that all of your lines have to be at level 3. But it does mean that you develop a very good sense of what your own psychograph is actually like, so that with a much more Integral self-image you can plan your future development.

A self is, by its very essence, a being with a past. One must look lengthwise backwards in the stream of time in order to see theself, or its shadow, now moving with the stream, now eddying in the currents from bank to bank of its channel, and now strenuously straining onwards in the pursuit of its chosen good.