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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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• Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day. All the higher instincts of our nature prophesy its approach; and the best intellects of the race are struggling to turn that prophecy into fulfilment.

  Horace Mann

  Struggle, Heart, Race

  Horace Mann (1895). “Helps to Self-culture”

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• The wise man looks back into the past, and does not grieve over what is far off, nor rejoice over what is near; for he knows that time is without end.

  Laozi

  Wise, Men, Grieving

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• It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Judging, Judgement

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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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• Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Running, Men, Thinking

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1911). “From Day to Day with Holmes”

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• Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

  Ayn Rand

  Future, Class, Literature

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

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• The past beats inside me like a second heart.

  John Banville

  Heart, Beats

  John Banville (2012). “Possessed of a Past: A John Banville Reader”, p.2, Pan Macmillan

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• The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Life, Moving, Essence

  Susanna Kearsley (2009). “Mariana”, p.218, Allison & Busby

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• Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.

  Sarah Dessen

  Remember You, Remembers You, Forget

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.208, Penguin

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• The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.

  Jack Kornfield

  Inspirational, Moving On, Forgiveness

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• Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you'll come to realize how unnecessary it was for you to drag those burdens around with you. You'll see that no one else other than you was responsible. The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Letting Go, Art

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• If you believe that feeling bad will change a past event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

  Wayne Dyer

  Letting Go, Believe, Reality

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• Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.

  Walter Raleigh

  Thinking, World, Revolution

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1751). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and Philosophical; Together with His Letters and Poems. The Whole Never Before Collected Together, and Some Never Yet Printed. To which is Prefix'd, a New Account of His Life by Tho. Birch”, p.116

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• I had to learn to forgive myself, not to judge, but to learn from the past. They showed me how vital it is to accept, be truthful, and love myself. So I could do the same with others.

  Marlo Morgan

  Judging, Forgiving, And Love

  Marlo Morgan (1991). “Mutant message down under”, Bookpeople

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• To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

  Charles J. Givens

  Motivational, Death, Letting Go

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• Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.

  Marva Collins

  Winning, Mr Collins, Names

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• Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.

  Gloria Steinem

  Answers, Problem, Embrace Change

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• Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.

  Agathon

  Criminal Mind, Has Beens, Deprived

  "The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle". Book by Aristotle, transl. by R. W. Browne, Book VI, Chapter II, 1850.

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• And a proverb haunts my mind
  As a spell is cast,
  The mill cannot grind
  With the water that is past.

  Sarah Doudney

  Water, Mind, Grind

  Sarah Doudney (1871). “Psalms of life”, p.82

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• The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.

  Adele Parks

  Letting Go

  Adele Parks (2012). “Young Wives' Tales”, p.374, Hachette UK

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• You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.

  Isak Dinesen

  Wise, Worry, Ruins

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• And we need to share our story. Not with everyone but with someone. There is someone who is like you were. And he or she needs to know what God can do. Your honest portrayal of your past may be the courage for another's future.

  Max Lucado

  God, Courage, Honesty

  Max Lucado (2011). “The Lucado Inspirational Reader: Hope and Encouragement for Your Everyday Life”, p.111, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wise, Wisdom, Future

  George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.315, 1st World Publishing

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• The same yesterday, today, and forever.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Jesus, Future

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set”, p.2625, Moody Publishers

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