Quotes about The Past

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“All that is left to bring you pain, are the memories. If you face those, you’ll be free.

 You can’t spend the rest of your life hiding from yourself; always afraid that your memories will incapacitate you, and they will if you continue to bury them.”
( J.D. Stroube, Caged in Darkness )

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“Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.”
( Joyce Meyer, Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind )

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“Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable...”

( Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding )

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“Because that is what happens when you try to run from the past.

It doesn't just catch up: it overtakes, blotting out the future, the landscape, the very sky,

until there is no path left except that which leads through it.”
( Sarah Dessen, Just Listen )

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“Things without all remedy should be without regard:

what's done is done.”
( William Shakespeare, Macbeth )

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“Yesterday is history,

 tomorrow is a mystery,

today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
( Bil Keane )

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“It's being here now that's important.

There's no past and there's no future, Time is a very misleading thing.

 All there is ever, is the now.

We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it;

and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.”
( George Harrison )

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“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, Invisible Monsters )

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“Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.”
( Dan Brown, Deception Point )

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“If only >> Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”
( Mercedes Lackey )

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“You go on equal to set one foot in front of the other,

and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.”
( Geraldine Brooks, March )

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“I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful.

I don't understand people who hide from their past.

Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.”
( Sophia Loren )

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“I don't think much about guys from the past.

I'm glad I knew them, but there's a reason they didn't make it into my future.”
( Lorraine Zago Rosenthal )

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“Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless.

Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.”
― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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