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Past time is finite, future time is infinite. -- Edwin Powell Hubble
Tomorrow's fast becoming our Past. -- Herbern Lebumfacil
Past happiness augments present wretchedness. -- Publilius Syrus
Past failures unlock future successes -- Richard Branson
Past glories are poor feeding. -- Isaac Asimov
Past tears are present strength. -- George MacDonald
Past art is subject to change. -- T. S. Eliot
Let the dead Past bury its dead! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Past all shame, so past all truth. -- William Shakespeare
Past is deaf. Future is mute. Present is blind. -- Akiane Kramarik
Past is pregnant with pieces of pathos and peace. -- Junaid e Mustafa
There is no Past, so long as Books shall live! -- Bill Vaughan
Past and future are in the mind only - I am now. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana
The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback. -- Alain Resnais
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
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. -- Johnny Cash
The past cannot be cured. -- Elizabeth I
The past is what the past is. -- Richard Sherman
I hate the past - especially my own past. -- Karl Lagerfeld
The beauty of the past belongs to the past. -- Margaret Bourke-White
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. -- Will Rogers
For every minute, the future is becoming the past. -- Thor Heyerdahl
The past is but the past of a beginning. -- H. G. Wells
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. -- Cyril Connolly
A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past. -- Elizabeth I
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame. -- John Lyly
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. -- Oscar Wilde
What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude. -- V. S. Naipaul
What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not. -- Steve Nash
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. -- Baruch Spinoza
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost. -- Robert H. Schuller
I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course. -- Paul McCartney
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. -- Mother Teresa
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future. -- Ronald Reagan
I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us. -- Peter Ackroyd
Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past. -- Gary Ryan Blair
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. -- Gaston Bachelard
The past is past and I guess if you live in the past, you cease to live. -- Craig McCaw
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future. -- Denis Waitley
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. -- Gautama Buddha
The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it. -- Thomas S. Monson
Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage. -- Joyce Meyer
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. -- Barbara de Angelis
We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. -- Robin Sharma
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. -- Pearl Bailey
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
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
Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal. -- Lawrence Lessig
People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren't real. They're just God's way of testing you. He's asking you, 'Do you want to make it or not?' -- Russell Simmons
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting. -- James M. Barrie
The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back. -- Larry the Cable Guy
Forget the past. -- Nelson Mandela
I'm attracted to the past. -- Tom Stoppard
Look back, and smile on perils past. -- Walter Scott
In this bright future you can't forget your past. -- Bob Marley
I'm looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past. -- Mike Rowe
Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories. -- Steven Wright
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. -- Thomas Jefferson
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. -- Maya Angelou
Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present. -- Bil Keane
We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges. -- T. D. Jakes
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. -- George Bernard Shaw
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. -- Marcus Garvey
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. -- Gautama Buddha
Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day. -- Rachel Boston
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. -- George Santayana
I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future. -- LaToya Jackson
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. -- John F. Kennedy
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
One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good. -- Gretchen Rubin
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. -- Charles R. Swindoll
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. -- J. Michael Straczynski
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. -- Steve Jobs
Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them. -- Jack Canfield
Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today? -- Mary Manin Morrissey
Remembrance of things past. -- William Shakespeare
The past is prologue. -- William Shakespeare
The past is obdurate. -- Stephen King
We are tomorrow's past. -- Mary Webb
That parasite: the past. -- Natalie Clifford Barney
Today's future is Tomorrow's past -- Mario
They say miracles are past. -- William Shakespeare
Power is knowing your past. -- Spike Lee
The past is another planet. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Warrior remembers the past. -- Paulo Coelho
Every past is worth condemning. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
You are not your past. -- Mitch Albom
My dancing days are past. -- Philip Massinger
What is past is prologue. -- William Shakespeare
I speed up past mirrors. -- Bill Nighy
Love has no past tense. -- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
I have a sordid past. -- Dar Williams
Your past is not your potential. -- Harvey Mackay
I am fascinated with times past. -- Frank Darabont
Learn your past, find your path. -- Kool Moe Dee
There's no sustenance in the past. -- Violette Leduc
We're not prisoners of the past. -- Martin Seligman
Love isn't love until it's past. -- Prince
All tradition is merely the past. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mantras are the past & the future. -- David R. Wommack
Everyone must learn from the past. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The present necessarily betrays the past. -- Mason Cooley
My past behaviour makes me cringe. -- Denise Van Outen
I'm really obsessed with the past. -- Fisher Stevens
Genealogists live in the past lane. -- Jimi Hendrix
Freedom is about stopping the past. -- Lawrence Lessig
Future is not extrapolation of past -- Vinod Khosla
God forgets the past... Imitate Him.. -- Max Lucado
Ignore past failures and forge ahead. -- Maxwell Maltz
Interesting people always have a past. -- Jeannette Walls
nothing recalls the past like music ... -- Madame de Stael
Whatever happened yesterday was the past. -- Rajneesh
I'm very inspired by past music. -- Adam Lambert
Even God cannot change the past. -- Agathon
Our past has gone into history. -- William McKinley

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