Past Quotes

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  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

  Life, Bullying, Mistake

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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  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

  Strong, Powerful, Feelings

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• The past is a bucket of ashes

  Carl Sandburg

  Buckets, Ashes

  Cornhuskers (1918) "Prairie"

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  I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

  Lewis Carroll

  Life, Change, Time

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 10 (1865)

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• One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Moving On, Wise, Moving Forward

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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• Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Prose of Oscar Wilde”, p.641, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely

  C. S. Lewis

  Meaningful, Future, Might

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• Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

  Adrienne Rich

  Fake People, Memories, Real

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Mistake, Optimism, Worry

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• You have to know the past to understand the present.

  Carl Sagan

  Knowledge, Political, Historical

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.62, Ballantine Books

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• Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.

  Joyce Meyer

  Suffering, Use, May

  Joyce Meyer (2008). “The Power of Being Positive: Enjoying God Forever”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

  Tryon Edwards

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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  Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, New Year, Mother

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.17, New World Library

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  One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

  Golda Meir

  Inspiration, Trying, Censorship In Books

  "My Life". Book by Golda Meir, 1975.

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• Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Mar 18, 2015

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• You are what you are today because of the choices you made in the past

  Jim Rohn

  Choices, Today, Made

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• The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

  Hans Hofmann

  Inspirational, Business, Mean

  1967 Search for the Real.

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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

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.517, Best Books on

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• Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.

  Henry Rollins

  Gold, Paint

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• 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

  Relationship, Humble, Perfect

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• We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

  Robin Sharma

  Life, Positive, Time

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.214, Jaico Publishing House

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• Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

  George Orwell

  Dream, Time, Peace

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 3 (1949) See Orwell 19

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• The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Love, Letting Go, Meaningful

  Barbara De Angelis (2009). “Are You the One for Me?: Knowing Who's Right and Avoiding Who's Wrong”, p.246, Dell

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• Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Insightful, Loser

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