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If it's one thing I could change about my past it would be to stop worrying about my past. — Lisa M. Cronkhite

It's like you wake up one morning, and decided that how you've been in the past doesn't have to define who you are in the future. Simple as that. — Carolyn Mackler

If there's one common thread throughout all of history, it's that people have always fallen for the wrong people. — Leila Sales

Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future. — Craig Groeschel

Preservation of the past has been one of humankind's chief preoccupations for centuries, although I am not convinced much of it is worth preserving. — Chris Flynn

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones. — Emile Zola

Look to the moon when you swing, he instructed. That's what you want. A ball that disappears into it. One that goes to the moon and past. A moonshot. — Alessandra Torre

It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end. — Esther Meynell

One's past can't be erased, it can only be learned from, the child taught her. — H. L. Balcomb

That's also one of the reasons I haven't found a man - he has to get past the other girls first and they are very picky! — Nicola Roberts

All our past deeds, gentlemen, one way or another, will be washed up on the shore of the present. — S.J. Parris

To hear years of one's life, one's passion, described so casually, relegated so absolutely to the past, was breathtaking. — Kate Morton

There are events in one's life which, no matter how remote, never fade from memory — Jim Corbett

Just because no one's managed something in the past, doesn't mean the future's lost. — Sarah Crossan

Every one has a past, but that's just is -- it's in the past — Nicholas Sparks

She must face the forest of her mother's past in order to save herself and the one she loves. — Carrie Ryan

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you. — Octavia Butler

Our past is who we are, and death is one of our experiences. I lost my husband a long time ago, but it's always yesterday. — Talia Shire

Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions! — Ashim Shanker

To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice. — Martial

In every life there are events that reshape one's sense of existence. Afterward, all is different and the past is dimmed. — Annie Proulx

You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures. — Josephine Humphreys

It would be one hell of an addition to someone's scrapbook. (Dark City Lights) — Bill Bernico

Laurent said, 'I didn't think anyone was good enough to get past your guard.' 'One person,' said Damen. — C.S. Pacat

One's own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid down. — Glen Cook

Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date - one that you can't see until she tells you she's leaving, and then she's gone. — Laura Miller

One of the things that I've learned working with Madonna is you just move forward. It's really rare that she ever brings up the past. — Guy Oseary

It is foolish to regret anything form one's past. — Mary Balogh

We may only ever have one great, passionate love, but sometimes it's best to leave that kind of love in the past. A love like that can't last forever. — Cassia Leo

Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm. — Gloria Steinem

Most morally ominous: from the second you choose one event over another, you're shaping the past's meaning. — Mary Karr

The look on her face is one of horror, or perhaps sorrow so great that it might as well be horror. Past a certain point, it's all the same thing. — N.K. Jemisin

I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships ... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry. — Conor McPherson

I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands. — Mariah Carey

The road home is a long one. As I walk this road, I recall my grandmother's words: Everyone has a past life, a future life and a present life. — Xiaolu Guo

He's just the "one". Not in a religious, demi-god sort of way even though I wouldn't put it past him to think that of himself. — J.J. McAvoy

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband. — Oscar Wilde

I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that. — Olivia D'Abo

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

No one can master the past; one can only interrogate it. — Charles S. Maier

Time and experience have a funny way of altering one's recollections of the past. — Wendy Webb

Trying to rewrite the past was a child's game, a pointless, ridiculous child's game no one ever won. — Sabrina Jeffries

Only one life, it will soon be past,
only what's done for Christ will last. — Elizabeth George

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice. — Lord Acton

It's not life, it's just an existence, jumping from one moment to the next with no idea of the past, and no plan for the future. — S.J. Watson

Memory was a slippery thing - slick moss on an unstable slope - and it was ever so easy to lose one's footing and fall — Kelly Barnhill

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

I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past. — Don Henley

Their damp bodies slapped together, and he could feel himself pushing past that tight ring of muscle with almost every one of Zane's movements. — Abigail Roux

I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry - all of the past you read is usually quite great - but it is a useful thorn to have in one's side. — Frank O'Hara

One faces the future with one's past. — Pearl S. Buck

Time's arrow points one way only. Even the moment just past cannot be returned to. — Russell Hoban

Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has. — Agatha Christie

The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one's own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes. — George Orwell

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last. — Robyn Hitchcock

There's one thing very important to me in business and for the long-term: always be honest with people. For the past 60 years, I always pay my debts. — Andrew Gotianun

Forgiveness doesn't make one person better, or the other guy smaller. Forgiving is just letting go. It's turning back toward being what we really are. — Edward Fahey

It's very hard to review one's past without cheating a little. — Simon De Beauvoir

One thing about the past. It's likely to last. — Ogden Nash

When it comes to a woman's past, no guy wants to hear about it. I don't care if you've fucked one guy or a hundred, keep it to yourself. — Emma Chase

It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward. — Andy Summers

There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it. — Isaac Asimov

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged. — Oscar Wilde

I'm pretty sure the past is only good for one thing and that's getting a person where they are at the present. — Susan Donovan

You were never really free of it, your past. No one is. It just went dormant, that's all. — Joe Hart

Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success. — Mark Spitz

People forget history nowadays,that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one had lived. — Aporva Kala

When you meet the right person, it's like nothing else - nobody else. No one in your past ever mattered. — Melissa De La Cruz

Just like that, he's gone. Things can change so quickly. One second you're in the present, the next you're remembering the past. — Janet Gurtler

If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem. — Don Cheadle

It's a gloomy thing, however, to talk about one's own past, with the day breaking. — Charles Dickens

Seeing is believing, or so the old saying goes. One of the strongest encouragements for trusting God today is seeing God's power in the past. — Anonymous

The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me. — Samantha Harvey

The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment — Gautama Buddha

The crimson leaf that blew past looked the twin of the one she'd picked up in the palace courtyard: a bloodied hand. — S.M. Jonas

One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future. — Neal Shusterman

Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Love covers all shortcomings and failures, overlooks one's mistakes and does not bring to mind one's past mistakes - My Last Letter, Chapter 1 — Santosh Avvannavar

That's one benefit of travelling to your own future, and making the trip part of your past. — James A. Owen

One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you. — Tom Stoppard

And in that one night's wickedness I drowned all my repentance,all my reflections upon my past conduct,and all my resolution for the future. — Daniel Defoe

One is always at home in one's past... — Vladimir Nabokov

To desire to change one's past means there is a desire to change oneself.
To desire to change oneself, one must learn to change. — Lorii Myers

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. — Gaston Bachelard

Time past and time future
what might have been and what has been
point to one end, which is always present. — T. S. Eliot

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings. — Cary Grant

Every soul has a past
Every soul lives a present
And every soul deserve a future
no judging on one's past
because its might be your future — Hlovate

We're the dead. There's no one else now. There's the past-dead and the future-dead. Corpses and corpses-to-be. — Rick Yancey

I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are. — Robert Breault

Memories of one's past are tainted. There are no truths to be found in them. — Morgan Rhodes

There is no getting away from the past or from one's destiny. — Laxmi Hariharan

For many of us, the happiest future is one that's precisely like the past, except a little better — Seth Godin

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past. — Thomas Jefferson

I'm a massive fan of Drake, and we walked right past him. He's too cool to be clapping One Direction though. — Zayn Malik

It's one of my theories that when people give you advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past. — Austin Kleon

That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past. — Malachy McCourt

One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama. — Robert Towne

It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone. — Marion Woodman

Zidane is the master. Over the past 10 years, there's been no-one like him, he has been the best player in the world. — Zinedine Zidane

In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music. — Herbie Hancock