"The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it."

Glasgow, Arnold H. on the future   

"Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future."

Campolo, Tony on past
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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 on past
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"Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten."

Proverb, German on past
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"I never look back, I look forward."

Graf, Steffi on past   

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

Barnard, Charlotte on past
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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 on past   

"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."

Orwell, George on past
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"Look back, and smile at perils past."

Scott, Sir Walter on past
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"May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future."

Dickson, Paul on past
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"The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here."

Dunne, Finley Peter on past
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"Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it."

Eliot, T. S. on past
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"To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past."

Givens, Charles J. on past
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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 on past   

"To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice."

Martial, Marcus Valerius on past   

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich on past
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"It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it."

Auchincloss, Kenneth on past
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