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Now, the past has plenty to teach us, but I don't think it should be allowed to detain us against our will.
Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.
Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so, Not what is dangerous present, but the los Of what is past.
The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.
Vision is the ability to talk about the future with such clarity it is as if we are talking about the past.
time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.
I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.
Other people have talked about chimpanzees being a window into the past, which I suppose is true, in a way.
Over the past few days I have been fighting off a virus that has affected the majority of my band and crew.
The past is good (as we all know), twenty, thirty years back everything was good, anyone can tell you that.
All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no.
Whatever is cheap became cheap by treating us badly in the past, but is priced to deliver superior returns.
Put the past behind you, the present moment is all that matters, in the life of those who want to be happy.
Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.
An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.
The present time of believers is no longer determined by the past. It takes its definition from the future.
I'm very sorry if I offended anybody. I'd like to put it in the past now. What's done is done. I regret it.
Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.
You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.
It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. All there is ever, is the now.
There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.
I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.
Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.
We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.
In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.
Leave the past in the past, tomorrows not promised and Todays just a gift i guess thats why its the present
A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.
Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free.
I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
I know more now than I did in the past about the process of democratization. I know more about the pitfalls.
One of the things I've been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface.
Lyrically I write based on my past experiences or things I wish to experience. Pain inspires me as does joy.
Letting go doesn’t just mean letting go of the past, but letting go of an unknown future; and embracing NOW.
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past.
A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.
I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States.
I have spent the past several years working so hard to just move on, and to try and build a life for myself.