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Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present. -- Jerome Hines
There's nothing particularly dark in my past... I live in the light. My disposition is basically happy. I have a good life. -- Lisa Unger
Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future. -- Arnold H. Glasow
You need fear and doubt to drive you on. Without it, you end up living in the past and being happy with what you have achieved. -- Tony McCoy
I'm so happy now. I love that I'm in a relationship right now... I want a life... The past five years or so I've found my groove and my balance. -- Kelly Clarkson
I like being surrounded by good ideas. Every single time you walk past something you like, you get a blast of happy chemicals to the brain, and I like that. -- Douglas Coupland
I have issues with anyone who tries to claim that science is unworkable - creationists who deny evidence for past history, yet are happy to benefit from the products of the methodology that they otherwise deny. -- Liz Williams
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. -- Marcel Pagnol
Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time. -- Tony Visconti
I've always been a happy-go-lucky person. I haven't got any dark tales, I didn't draw on my own past, I'm from a very normal stable background and had an amazing childhood, and I haven't got any complaints really. -- Vicky McClure
But it's funny that now I'm in such a happy situation, I look more objectively at my own past and see what others have seen for a long time and I'm just so glad I've been able to get to this point. -- Rick Allen
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
You can always affect things - so can you change it in a way that will make you as happy with it in the future as you were in the past? Maybe it won't be the same, but it might be something else you also like. -- Jamie Zawinski
Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself. -- Maeve Binchy
I loved working on 'Happy Gilmore' because I love to travel to new places and we got to go to British Columbia. Any Adam Sandler film is fun to work on because it is a reunion of the boys club of guys that have worked together in the past. -- Kevin Nealon
It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance. -- Erich von Stroheim
Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you. -- Boris Kodjoe
I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future. -- Orhan Pamuk
In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, 'why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,' and they abandon their values. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
Most people are nostalgic in a way that they're fond of the past, but they still are happy that they are where they are now. You know, when you say, 'Oh, high school was this or that,' you don't want to go back. No matter how much you loved high school, you don't want to actually be back in high school. I certainly wouldn't. -- Jason Reitman
A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else. -- Richard Flanagan
Happy people have neither age nor memory, they have no need of the past. -- Tahar Djaout
May today be filled With bright hopes for the future And happy memories of the past -- John Walter Bratton
Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present." -- Jerome Hines
Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten! -- Courteney Cox
Much is required of those who are happy, especially if they have needed comforting in the past, and have received it. -- Giovanni Boccaccio
Never measure or compare yourself to anyone other than your past self, seek to always improve & you'll be happy and successful. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
I am happy with my past, my present and my future. All three are miraculous building blocks of my beloved, wonderful life. -- Robert Muller
Put the past behind you, the present moment is all that matters, in the life of those who want to be happy. -- Leon Brown
You can be happy if you are willing to let go of your past and leave yourself unencumbered so you can fly freely. -- Chris Prentiss
A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future. -- Bruce Barton
Sometimes in order to be happy in the present moment you have to be willing to give up all hope for a better past. -- Robert Holden
When you smoke marijuana, you are in the moment and you are happy. You forget about any worries of the past or the future. -- Tommy Chong
If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process. -- Jim Rohn
You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now. -- Yvon Chouinard
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present. -- Roy Bennett
If you truly love someone, you don't judge them by their past. You leave it there. Just be happy that their future belongs to you. -- Nishan
No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love. -- Jamaica Kincaid
If I let the past and my goals be the only thing that drives me in life, I will never know the meaning of being happy. -- Unarine Ramaru
It is possible to reclaim your future, to build a happy life despite an imperfect past. We can order the universe to our will and mind. -- Katherine Marsh
You can never be happy if you're trapped in the past and fearful of the future. Living in the present is the only way to be happy. -- Robert Tew
Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday. -- Gladys Taber
I am happy to debate the past with the Prime Minister... I have a big dossier on his past, and I did not even have to sex it up. -- Michael Howard
I'm sure that's when you really know you are happy - when you wake up wanting to embrace your future, rather than trying to squirm away from your past. -- Peter James

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