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Past

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

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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

Dickson, Paul

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

What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.

Wolfe, Charles

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).

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

Weil, Simone

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Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.

Raddal, Thomas H.

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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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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

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There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you -- if you don't repeat it.

Bailey, Pearl

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We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Didion, Joan

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

Horace

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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 people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.

Welch, John

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

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I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,

Barnard, Charlotte

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Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Saying

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Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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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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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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It is not the literal past, the facts of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Friel, Brian

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

Givens, Charles J.

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

Benjamin, Walter

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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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

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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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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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done.

Shakespeare, William

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The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

Webb, Mary

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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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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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Einstein, Albert

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It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Berger, John

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Colton, Charles Caleb