These past life quotes will inspire you. Past life, a previously lived life in a different body, according to theories of reincarnation.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging past life quotes, past life sayings, and past life proverbs.
Best Past Life Quotes
- “I try not to live in the past…but…sometimes the past lives in me” ~ Jamie Ford
- “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard
- “Don’t judge me by my past. I don’t live there anymore” ~ Zig Ziglar”We may not live in the past, but the past lives in us.” ~ Samuel Pisar
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“We may not live in the past, but the past lives in us.” ~ Samuel Pisar
- “Some people believe that we go on living in another body after death, that we lived before. They call it reincarnation. That we all lived before on the earth thousands of years ago or on some other planet. They say we have forgotten it. Some say they remember their past lives.” ~ James Joyce
- “Life is like a piece of string with a lot of knots tied in it. The knots are the karma you’re born with from all your past lives, and the object of human life is to try and undo all those knots. That’s what chanting and meditation in God consciousness can do. Otherwise you simply tie another ten knots each time you try to undo one knot. That’s how karma works.” ~ George Harrison
- “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
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“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” ~ John F. Kennedy
- “One aspect of power is to bring our past-life awareness into this lifetime. The second aspect of power is to go into new fields of awareness that we have never experienced.” ~ Frederick Lenz
- “What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself.” ~ Catherine Crowe
- “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.” ~ Wendy Mass
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“Why write a book on uncovering past lives? Because the benefits for personal empowerment, healing, and enlightenment are tremendous.” ~ Ted Andrews
- “All the records of your past lives are contained within your own mind, just as the records of your ancestors are contained within your DNA.” ~ Frederick Lenz
- “Life can only be understood backwards.” ~ Mackenzie Astin
- “I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.” ~ Marcel Proust
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“Life is not simple, and therefore history, which is past life, is not simple.” ~ David Shannon
- “The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Most people do not benefit from psychoanalysis because the trauma lies not in this life but in a past life.” ~ Alexander Cannon
- “Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue out future lives will be less afflicted.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
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“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “The Warrior remembers the past.” ~ Paulo Coelho
- “In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.” ~ Stanislav Grof
- “Buddhists believe that you are who you are today is because of who you have been in all your past lives.” ~ Frederick Lenz
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“I was a dog in a past life. Really. I’ll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.” ~ William H. Macy
- “Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present” ~ Paulo Coelho
- “Nothing seems real anymore. Even the flames from the fire seem to beckon to me, drawing me into some great past life buried somewhere deep in my subconscious, if only I could find the key..if only..if only. Ever since my illness, my condition, I’ve been trying to find some logical way of passing my time, of justifying a means to an end.” ~ Ian Curtis
- “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
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“To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.” ~ Jeanne Moreau
- “Since there my past life lies, why alter it?” ~ Robert Browning
- “The Akashic Records are the impressions from all of our past lives that are available within our causal body.” ~ Frederick Lenz
- “I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial… I thought I knew a good deal about it all, I was sure I should not fail.” ~ Winston Churchill
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“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” ~ John C. Maxwell
- “”A hundred years ago, in this country, we were more comfortable with these discussions [of past lives, touching the spiritual world, collective unconsciousl] than we are today. I think part of that is that we have gotten addicted to the same serum that I’m taking, which is the belief that the answers are always going to be right there in front of us. And sometimes ya gotta take that leap.”” ~ Mehmet Oz
- “However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.” ~ J. C. Ryle
- “Although I believe in reincarnation, as many people do that live in the East, I do not remember my past lives clearly; I only wish I did.” ~ Gerald Gardner
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“All of us have an aura, a body of energy linked to different planes of awareness. Some have the ability to access more planes of awareness then others because of past lives, because of practice in this life.” ~ Frederick Lenz
- “Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.” ~ Ted Chiang
- “The immediate source of a mind… must be a mind which existed before the conception took place; the mind must have a continuity from a previous mind. This we hold to prove the existence of a past life.” ~ Dalai Lama
- “Computer science is the most misunderstood field there is. You are being paid to solve puzzles. For a person who has practiced meditation in past lives, that is the way your mind works.” ~ Frederick Lenz
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“When I think of my past life, and the bitter trials I have endured, I can scarcely believe I live, and yet I do; and, with the help of Him who notes the sparrow’s fall, I mean to fight for my down-trodden race while life lasts.” ~ Sarah Winnemucca
- “Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.” ~ Peter Zumthor
- “I don’t want to look back-I want to keep looking ahead. I’d hate for my defining moment to be my past.” ~ Scott Hamilton
- “The future’s too bright to dwell on the past. Life moves fast, run faster.” ~ Frank Iero
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“Hysteria, epilepsy, tuberculosis, and cancer were all found to result from the erratic propensities of a past life.” ~ Max Heindel
- “Don’t put stock in past lives. It’s this life that makes the difference. And in this life, there may be certain destinies, people you’re meant to meet.” ~ Leanna Renee Hieber
- “When a child speaks of a past life memory, the effects ripple far. At the center is the child, who is directly healed and changed. The parents standing close by are rocked by the truth of the experience – a truth powerful enough to dislodge deeply entrenched beliefs. For observers removed from the actual event – even those just reading about it – reports of a child’s past life memory can jostle the soul toward new understanding. Children’s past life memories have the power to change lives.” ~ Carol Bowman
- “Children who remember their past lives offer the most compelling evidence yet for reincarnation… when adults listen-really listen-to what the children are trying to say, their own understanding of spirit and of children are changed forever.” ~ Carol Bowman
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“Why wish for the privilege of living your past life again? You begin a new one every morning” ~ Robert Quillen
- “I think I spent all my life in gymnastics. And if you will ask me I want to change something in your past life, no. I will go same.” ~ Olga Korbut
- “I didn’t believe in reincarnation in my past life, and I still don’t.” ~ Woody Allen
- “The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.” ~ Will Durant
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“Maybe I was a pirate in my past life. I didn’t kill people, though. I was just a badass” ~ Dianna Agron
- “I absolutely adore and idolise women. All women. I think they are all amazing. The female musicians I’ve met have been far more inspiring than the male ones. Women tend to be much more creative and ambitious. I think I may have been a woman in a past life.” ~ Robert Plant
- “‘You told me, Father, that after my past life it is still possible to become another St. Augustine. I don’t doubt it, and today more than yesterday I want to try to prove it.’ But you have to cut out sin courageously from the root, as the holy Bishop of Hippo did.” ~ Josemaria Escriva
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“It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.” ~ Isaac Asimov
- “I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they’re dead, because that’s where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.” ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- “We do look for inspiration amongst our own sex. Why not? You go into temples and they’re full of all the lineage lamas who are male. What message does that give to a young girl, except that somehow she got trapped in the wrong body because of bad things she did in a past life?” ~ Tenzin Palmo , Bad past life quotes
- “I wish to be a cat. I like to imagine I was a cat in a past life.” ~ Wendy C. Ortiz
- “Don’t worry about your future lives, past lives. Button up your shirt! Stand up straight! Go out and do something. Go out and have some fun. Be alive, change, dissolve, explode!” ~ Frederick Lenz
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“Well, I’ve got something to tell you, In my last life I was a Spanish Count and one of the things I loved to do when I was a count in Spain was take all the commoners, line them up against a wall and throw rocks at them, being a professional hockey goalie is punishment for my bad habits in past lives.” ~ Gilles Gratton
- “You know the worst: your wills are fickle,
Your values blurred, your hearts impure
And your past life a ruined church–
But let your poison be your cure.” ~ Louis MacNeice - “The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a stray gleam of sunshine finds its way down to the roots of the trees.” ~ James F. Cooper
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“How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
- “As soon as you lay down, that’s when the most bizarre things start coming out of her mouth. ‘Goodnight, baby.’ ‘Do you think we were together in a past life?’ ‘Yeah, and I died of sleep deprivation. Go to bed.’ ‘Don’t you feel like we’re soul…'” ~ Adam Ferrara
- “Let’s consider: at the time of the Buddha, when he attained enlightenment, according to the old texts, in the first watch of the night, he went through all of his past lifetimes. Then in the second watch of the night, his mind opened still further and encompassed the coming into being and dying and re-coming into being of all beings, everywhere. The third watch of the night, he realized interdependent origination. He realized interdependent origination because he saw it. It wasn’t some theory he thought up. He saw it. That was his enlightenment experience. That was why he was a Buddha.” ~ Tenzin Palmo
