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A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future. — Bruce Barton

The future is born, put the past in a casket — Lil' Wayne

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. — Peter L. Berger

The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time. — Stephen Hawking

It is always easy for those living in the present to feel superior to those who lived in the past. — Charles C. Mann

The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow. — Claudia Rankine

Lamenting the past is a waste of energy that we can turn into positive energy through work and acquiring skills. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on the a brighter world. — Dave Pelzer

The good news is that you may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you havce no control over my future. You don't know me at all. — David Klass

You yourself never loved; you never love!
Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so? — Bram Stoker

Welfare is the basic cause of the deleterious cultural changes we have witnessed in the West over the past 60 years. — Martin Durkin

Moneo has discovered it is pointless to live in the past, impossible to live in the future, and difficult to live in the present. — Frank Herbert

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past. — Berenice Abbott

the best way to judge whether the controlling party will act fairly in the future is to see whether it has acted fairly in the past. — Hugh Young

Never mind the truth. The past is what I say it is. That is the freedom of teaching the ignorant. — Steven Erikson

The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking him in the face. — Jeremy Hardy

It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past. — Clement Freud

All the sadness, all the hurt in the past making this moment all the sweeter. If pain is the weight of being, love is the purpose. — Pierce Brown

I believe the best way to honor the past and future of women's rights is by getting shit done. — Sophia Amoruso

This place is as dead as dice. Nothing safer to rob than a grave, if you can push past the creep factor. — H.L. Burke

Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation. — Rumi

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way. — Joichi Ito

The past which you carry in your purse is a gift and a curse when you goin' head first. — Drake

From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future. — Muhammad Iqbal

The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable. — Andrei Codrescu

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is. — Donald J. Trump

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward. — Djuna Barnes

It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change. — Carlton Cuse

At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet. — Thomas Carlyle

All the bad in my life led me to her, which makes me think that I can live with the past if she is my future. - HEW — Michelle Warren

To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings. — Quentin Crisp

Always remember the words of Descartes: The reading of all good books is like conversion with the finest men of the past centuries. — Rachel Caine

The question is precisely to know whether the past has ceased to exist, or ceased to be useful ... — Henri Bergson

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present. — Billy Corgan

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was — Samuel Johnson

All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it. — Robert Henri

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. — George Herbert

Love is not the hurt from the past. Love is today. Love is patient enough to wait for the future to heal us. — C.H. Carter

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink. — Nick Flynn

The past is a blur, like fog only blurrier. — Darynda Jones

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future. — Joel A. Barker

There is no shame in having been the woman I was. She made me the woman I am. — Julie-Anne

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable ... — Susanne Katherina Langer

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

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be ... — Eckhart Tolle

If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process. — Jim Rohn

History is a light that illuminates the past,
and a key that unlocks the door to the future. — Runoko Rashidi

We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us. — Alan Watts

Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself. — John Logan

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past — Ken Burns

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. — Robertson Davies

The only time is Now. All other times - past, present, and parallel - can be accessed in this moment of Now, and may be changed for the better. — Robert Moss

Your desires will source you with the inspiration to release your outdated beliefs and let go of whatever behavior is keeping you stuck in the past. — Debbie Ford

We are always fascinated with the past, but the future is always brighter. — Debasish Mridha

The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future. — Stan Musial

If the past is no longer present
is it fiction? — Natasha Tsakos

The purpose of life is to find your way back to a spiritual way of thinking and living - to be able to get past the physical stuff. — Wendy Higgins

Not the past, not the future, life is now. — Rickson Gracie

The true measure of spiritual growth is not how much you've learned in the past year but how much you've grown in holiness. — Mike Bullmore

Publicity is in essence, nostalgic. It has to sell the past to the future... According to publicity, to be sophisticated is to live beyond conflict. — John Berger

Holding on to the past is like groping in the dark room when you have the opportunity to turn on the light. You only stumble, fall and hurt yourself. — Wogu Donald

Forget the past and live in the present hour. Now is the time to work, the time to fill The soul with noblest thoughts, the time to will. — Sarah Knowles Bolton

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it. — Pearl Bailey

No one willingly reverts to the past unless all his actions have passed his own censorship, which is never deceived. — Seneca.

The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future. — Paul Auster

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present. — Swami Vivekananda

It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life. — Martial

The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you. — Ben Whishaw

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. — Mick Jagger

In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense. — Tabitha King

It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never. — Wendell Berry

The problem with guilt is that it cements you to the past. — Kevin Leman

For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure. — Eduardo Galeano

Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true. — Sathya Sai Baba

Let nothing distract you from your opponent. He is between you and the rest of your life, and you must move past him to see it. — Scott James Magner

What's past is prologue, and the world awaits. — Lisa Mantchev

If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now. — Alan Watts

Heritage is a matter of the stories we choose to tell about our past, as well as the stories we overlook. — Steve Inskeep

How does it happen? At what point is she born, the baffled, wounded adult of tomorrow? Is eleven what we react to for the rest of our lives? — Kyo Maclear

The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation. — Geoffrey Elton

Everyone's past, I try to rationalize, is nothing more than the collection of memories they choose to remember. — Andrew Davidson

The past is but the past of a beginning. — H.G.Wells

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was. — Lynn Townsend White Jr.

The past is more than a memory. — John Trudell

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless. — Merle Shain

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. — Vladimir Nabokov

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past; therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present. — Jerome Hines

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians. — Samuel Butler

It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you're alone. It feels less like a wound, more like a poultice. — Jodi Picoult

I wish I did not know parts of the past; I wish they had never happened. But the past is the past, and someone must remember, and speak of it. — Robert Jackson Bennett

There is no recovery for anyone without lifting the lid on the pain of the past and letting in the light. — Rob Lowe

The past is a closed door, the present is an open one, and the future is an approaching one. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Life is a perpetual splash of the past. — Farzaneh Doosti

Nothing is bleaker than the future, except perhaps the past. — Arthur Golden

The past is dead except for the life you give it — Myles Munroe

Worry is the product of a future that we cannot guarantee and guilt is the product of a past we cannot change. — Shailene Woodley

The age of miracles has not past. The Miracle Worker is still ALIVE. His name is Jesus Christ! — T. B. Joshua

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future. — Nicolas Chamfort