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Quotes About Past
•“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” 
― Mother Teresa
•“The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.” 
― Philip Emeagwali 
•“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” 
― George Santayana
•“Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.” 
― William Wordsworth
•“The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.” 
― Bill Cosby
“If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.” 
― Winston Churchill 
•“The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.” 
― Alan Moore
“I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.” 
― Bob Dylan 
•“The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.” 
― Harry S. Truman
•“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” 
― Melody Beattie 
•“You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.” 
― Ann Brashares
•“Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” 
― Charles Dickens 
•“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.” 
― Steve Maraboli
•“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.” 
― Oscar Wilde
•“Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.” 
― Denis Waitley 
•“If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging at your back and running its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do—the only thing—is run.” 
― Lauren Oliver
•“People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.” 
― Karl Lagerfeld
•“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” 
― Bil Keane
•“Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.” 
― Joyce Meyer
•“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.” 
― C.S. Lewis
•“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” 
― Lyndon B. Johnson
•“I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.” 
― George Eliot
•“I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.” 
― Sophia Loren
•“Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.” 
― Horace Mann
•“‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.” 
― Salman Rushdie
•“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.” 
― Friedrich Nietzsche
•“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.” 
― Kiran Desai
“Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.” 
― Sarah Breathnach
•“Learn from the past, but don’t live in the past.” 
― Steve Maraboli
•“Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.” 
― Dan Brown
•“You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.” 
― Forrest Carter
•“To dream the future is much more better than to regret the past.
But the best of all, to live in the present life with all of your power.” 
― Toba Beta
•“You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.” 
― Jane Austen
•“How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.” 
― Augustine of Hippo
•“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.” 
― Steve Maraboli
•“In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. 'Time' doesn't pass. We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we're always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better, about the consequences of our actions, and about why we didn't act as we should have. Or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do tomorrow, what precautions we should take, what dangers await us around the next corner, how to avoid what we don't want and how to get what we have always dreamed of.” 
― Paulo Coelho
•“The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.” 
― Nicholas Sparks
•“Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment.” 
― Rick Warren
•“You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.” 
― Geraldine Brooks
“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.” 
― Oscar Wilde 
•“I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.” 
― Tony Robbins 
•“It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.” 
― Salman Rushdie
•“Every relationship must have a starting point so that past errors may remain in the past.” 
― Mary Lydon Simonsen
•“If you don’t deal with the past, the past deals with you.” 
― Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson
•“We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest, struggling at length to blind unreasoning panic - now mercifully stilled, thank God - might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion as it had before.” 
― Daphne du Maurier
•“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” 
― Marcus Garvey 
•“Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.” 
― Boyd K. Packer
•“Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.” 
― George Allen, Sr. 
•“Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.” 
― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
•“The past is never where you think you left it.” 
― Katherine Anne Porter
•“The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.” 
― Barbara Taylor Bradford
•“We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.” 
― Lyndon B. Johnson
•“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” 
― Søren Kierkegaard
•“Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.” 
― Denis Waitley 
•“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 
•“If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.” 
― Paulo Coelho
•“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” 
― Buddha 
•“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” 
― George Bernard Shaw 
•“What you had yesterday is only memories; what you will have tomorrow is your dreams and what you will do today, let it be love.” 
― Santosh Kalwar
•“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 
•“The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.” 
― George Eliot 
•“Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.” 
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
•“Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.” 
― Lewis B. Smedes 
•“Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.” 
― Sivananda 
•“I've been burdened with blame trapped in the past for too long, I'm moving on” 
― Rascal Flatts
•“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 
•“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.” 
― Marcus Aurelius 
•“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.” 
― William James 
•“All that is left to bring you pain, are the memories. If you face those, you’ll be free. You can’t spend the rest of your life hiding from yourself; always afraid that your memories will incapacitate you, and they will if you continue to bury them.” 
― J.D. Stroube
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