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Andr? Maurois
A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.
Anthony Robbins
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.
Barbara De Angelis
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
Blaise Pascal
Our past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.
Dale Turner
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Emily Dickinson
The past is not a package one can lay away.
Eric Ransdell in Fast Company
The stories that you tell about your past shape your future.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The cultural influences in our country are like the floo floo bird. I am referring to the peculiar and especial bird who always flew backward. To keep the wind out of its eyes? No. Just because it didn't give a darn where it was going, but just had to see where it had been.
George Lawrence-Ell The Invisible Clock
The most important revelation about the past stems from the realization that it is not important to try and get rid of it, but to realize that we are already, by definition, rid of it. We need not be convinced of the importance of living in the present, but instead realize that we inevitably live in the present, and the only thing to id is to face it. ... Whether we like it or not, we cannot escape the present. The only reality is now.
George Orwell
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Santayana
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, knowing that once it was all that was humanly possible.
Gloria Steinem
Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
Golda Meir
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, and Linda Woolverton The Lion King
Never run away from the past, face it and learn from it.
J.F. Kennedy
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
James Long Leadership Magazine, Winter 1997
One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past.
Jim Rohn Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine, Feb. 18, 2003
It's easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you.
John Cage
We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
L. Thomas Holdcroft
The past is a guide post, not a hitching post.
Lesley P. Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
 
 
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