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If you're always looking back at what you've lost, you'll never discover the treasure that lies just up ahead. — J.E.B. Spredemann

I don't care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it. — Sebastian Vettel

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

It was possible to rush forward, looking back, and break your neck. — Jan Ellison

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

i would like to look
into a mirror
without inmediately
looking away.
- healing is ongoing II — Amanda Lovelace

Looking backwards
Has never been my endeavor
Lost passions ... bruised emotions
Never distressed me. — Balroop Singh

Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real. — Dodie Smith

The trick was looking past the illusion, because the exit was never as far away as it seemed. — Lauren DeStefano

We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past. — Sophie Swetchine

I do not like to dwell on the past. Life is ahead of us. If we spend too much time looking backward, we can't see where we are going! — R.J. Palacio

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light. — Bryant McGill

There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past. — Emma Lazarus

The most basic method one can use to let go of the past is by looking at it as a learning experience. — Stephen Richards

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking. — Moshe Safdie

I like what I see when I'm looking at me when I'm walking past the mirror, — Mary J. Blige

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back. — Sarah Dessen

I'm looking into my past lives. I'm convinced some of them still owe me money. — Graham Parke

The present joys of life we doubly taste,
By looking back with pleasure to the past. — Martial

You can't change the past. It's already done. Looking back only keeps you there. — Donna Grant

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow. — George Eliot

You can't figure out what to do in the future by looking at how you did things in the past — Roger Lewin

Forget the past, it's gone, but glance back occasionally to remind yourself where you came from and where you are going. — Chloe Thurlow

I will look at the past, but I will not stare at it. — M. Spio

Every woman should have a youth she's content to leave behind and a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to telling it in her old age — Pamela Redmond Satran

You can never really know where exactly people are looking at! At the place they are staring at? Or at their past? Or at their future? — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I keep my scrapbooks in the car. When I come to a stoplight, I start looking through my past. Sometimes I wish the red lights were longer. — Garry Shandling

There are houses in Gloucester where grooves have been worn into the floorboards by women pacing past an upstairs window, looking out to sea. — Sebastian Junger

Although the world places a premium on the latest things, some realities are discovered by looking into the past. — Max Anders

Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future. — Colleen Hoover

You can create your own miracle, but you do it by never looking past all the little steps along the way. — Mikaela Shiffrin

You should live in such a way that looking back at your past later on in the future, you will thank God for your life and for what He has done for you — Sunday Adelaja

If you're really looking for answers, look past me. But if you're interested in how I got to where I am, I will be as honest as possible. — Rich Mullins

Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward. — Martha Graham

I've spent the past two years looking for my ex-girlfriend's killer ... but no one will do it. — Anthony Jeselnik

He isn't looking at the view because his past life keeps flashing in front of his eyes and getting in the way — Terry Pratchett

When you stop looking over your shoulder, you shall see that the future is way nicer than the past. — Sylvia L'Namira

Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead. — Alan Brennert

Peacefully and lovingly accepting who we are today requires honestly looking at our past. — Rob Martin

He was like a nation in crisis, looking back, and back and back - its history might be ugly, but its past shone perfect. — Gish Jen

Perhaps looking at the forensics of your past can catapult you forward in a way that merely dreaming can never attain! — T.D. Jakes

You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not. — Henry David Thoreau

We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already. — Seneca The Younger

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind. — Kiran Desai

I'm looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past. — Mike Rowe

If you're too busy looking back at the past, you won't be able to enjoy the future! — Dawn M. Plass

Forget the past... "I am focusing all my energies on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead." - Philippians 3:13b — Lisa Cheater

I learned from my past, and I now employ those lessons going forward, looking to the future - don't you think it's about time our government did, too? — Ian Somerhalder

Have you ever felt you were born in the wrong decade, or came just a bit too late and missed out on all the good stuff when it was in its heyday? — E.A. Bucchianeri

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. — Edna Ferber

I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past. — Ice Cube

Hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past. — Greg Mortenson

STOP looking back!!!! When your past calls do NOT pick up!! it has nothing new to say. — Joseph Simmons

Longing for the past keeps us looking back; but hoping in a brighter future keeps us looking up! EL — Evinda Lepins

I don't fly any awards at the house. Any award you get is usually for something you've done in the past. And I like to keep looking forward. — Garth Brooks

Their eyes were flat, incurious, and old- impossibly old, as though instead of looking forward, their eyes saw back to a distant past. — Lauren Oliver

Whether beautiful or terrible, the past is always a ruin. — Matthew Flaming

Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it. — Peter Schoomaker

I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack;The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back. — Henry Van Dyke

Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years. — Archilochus

I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye. — John Irving

Looking at the past can be painful, but you can either run from it, numb it, or learn frome it. — Mia Sheridan

I don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night. — Al McGuire

Perhaps that's why I find myself looking backward. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present. — Kristin Hannah

Our pasts often set our circumstances. — Katherine Russell

Hurry, drive and bustle ... Everybody looking out for number one, and caring little who jostled past, if their rights were not infringed. — Fanny Fern

If tomorrow will be the end of the world, I will spend my today by looking at the pictures of my past! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live. — Sarah Brightman

Belfast is a city which, while not forgetting its past, is living comfortably with its present and looking forward to its future. — James Nesbitt

Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory. — Patricia Hampl

I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others. — Mary E. DeMuth

You have the here and now. You have a future. Deal with the past so you can stop looking back. It's just the pain. — Jessica Park

Ego is the central figure of our personal history, based upon the past and looking into the future. Ego is the deepest dream of the Consciousness. — Frank M. Wanderer

If you spend all of your time looking to the past, you'll never see your future coming. — Lewis McDonald

Stop looking forward to things, look inward instead. — Kamand Kojouri

There's a danger in looking up past loves. It's usually best to keep sacred memories sacred, or they are bound to disappoint. — Kelly Kathleen Ferguson

He took his time looking around for anything interesting to salvage, but found only broken bits of what once was. — A.B. Shepherd

What is our life: (Pause.) it's looking forward or it's looking back. And that's our life. That's it. Where is the moment? — David Mamet

But she was looking into the past, trying to understand when it was that all the laughter died. — Sidney Sheldon

They say that sometimes a man cannot recognize himself in a looking-glass. It is even harder to recognize oneself in the clouded mirror of the past. — Ilya Ehrenburg