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Past

The beauty of the past is that it is the past. The beauty of the now is to know it. The beauty of the future is to see where one is going.

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The beauty of the past is that it is the past. The beauty of the now is to know it. The beauty of the future is to see where one is going.

You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

Sandburg, Carl

The rewards in life go to those who are willing to give up the past

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

Horace

Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes.

Bingham, Caleb

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Givens, Charles J.

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We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

Pound, Ezra

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A lot of people go through life like they are rowing a boat. They look at where they have been (the PAST) rather than where they are going (the FUTURE).

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The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Weil, Simone

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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.

Eliot, T. S.

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We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

Guare, John

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If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

Hoban, Russell

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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.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.

Proverb, German

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The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Fredrich

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That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

Wordsworth, William

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

Rich, Adrienne

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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Einstein, Albert

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The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.

Proust, Marcel

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

Waitley, Denis

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If you must cry over spilled milk then please try to condense it

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Living in the past has one thing going for it; it's cheaper!

Saying

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The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

Ovid

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As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.

Barzan, Gerald

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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects --making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Sontag, Susan

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The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

Whitman, Walt

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.

Steiner, George

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What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Moon, William Least Heat

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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.

Bachelard, Gaston

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

Buffett, Warren

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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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.

Collins, Marva

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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.

Brown, Les

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It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.

Wright, Charles

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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The next day is never so good as the day before.

Syrus, Publilius

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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

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The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today.

Chapman, Joyce