Past Quotes
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Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
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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.
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It's OK to argue with your friends. Guys can do it better than girls, usually, but if you ever get into a fight with a true friend or a spouse or a boyfriend, get it out, fight, be angry for five minutes, and then move past it. Don't let it fester; don't hold a grudge. If you do, that's when it will get worse and worse.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
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Our future depends on how we understand the past.
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The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.
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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
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If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.
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Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
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A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.
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Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.
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And as, in ethics, Evil is a consequence of Good, so, in fact, out of Joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.
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I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
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I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.
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One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
