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The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
What is last year's snow to me, Last year's anything? The tree Budding yearly must forget How its past arose or set
I believe in living in the present and making each day count. I don't pay much attention to the past or the future.
Never think about something wrong you did in the past, always look forward with your head up high; have no regrets.
Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!
Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct
Ideas brush past fleeting and insubstantial as moths. But I let them go, I don't want them. What I want is a voice.
I'd rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what's happening at the moment.
Never tripping off the past, I would rather never mind 'em/'Cause only fools trip over something that be behind 'em
I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.
Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.
Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.
Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.
God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.
The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.
A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.
I am wandering inside, wandering through my past, trying to see if there is a place there strong enough to hold me.
Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.
The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.
In the past, it weighed on me because nobody in my family is gay. I had no role models so I had to find my own way.
I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.
The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks, from Stalin to Mr. Bean.
Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.
In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.
She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted.
No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.
In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
I'll take the shooting. I'm used to that. I've been shot a few times in the past, and I guess I can stand it, again.
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask - you are exhibiting your past life on your body.
Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.
We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
Owning a TVR in the past was like owning a bear. I mean it was great, until it pulled your head off, which it would.
Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.
By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.
Regret for a sinful past will remain until we truly believe that for us in Christ that sinful past no longer exists.
In the past, I would try to control so much, but that's just too stressful, and gives me too much anxiety and worry.
The inward battle--against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past--is more terrible than outward battle.
Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.
The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment.
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.