Forget The Past Quotes

• Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Joseph Simmons

  Past, Rapper, African American

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• When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

  Dian Fossey

  Inspirational, Life, Witty

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• The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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  I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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  Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

  George Santayana

  Past, Infancy Is, History

  "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress", Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense by George Santayana, 1905-1906.

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• Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

  Don Henley

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Life Changing

  Song: My Thanksgiving

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• Every life has a purpose. We need to let go of the past. Live in the present. Do not waste today worrying about what will happen tomorrow. Embrace your true spirit, embrace and listen to grace and you be transformed in the moment. Do not fixate on what you want but give thanks for what you have.

  Caroline Myss

  Life, Thankful, Letting Go

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  Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't stumble over something behind you.

  Seneca the Younger

  Motivational, Wisdom, Inspiration

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  You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

  Johnny Cash

  Life, Bullying, Mistake

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Learning, Stubborn

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life Lesson, Men, Numbers

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• Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we're mad at people, we're angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.

  Marianne Williamson

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Past

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• Study the past, if you would divine the future.

  Confucius

  Change, Time, Philosophical

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• The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

  Publilius Syrus

  Past, Forget, Remedy

  "Maxims". No. 383,

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• Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Past, Way, Forget

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• The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

  Annie Lennox

  Life, Appreciation, Future

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• Forget the past.

  Nelson Mandela

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Past

  Nelson Mandela (1990). “Nelson Mandela, symbol of resistance and hope for a free South Africa: selected speeches since his release”

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• Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Past, Track, Achievement

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• By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

  Jack Dempsey

  Life, Past, Worry

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• We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Happiness, Wisdom

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.5, Anchor

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• Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife. Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life. But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways, We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days. Hearts full of youth, Hearts full of truth, Six parts gin to one part vermouth.

  Tom Lehrer

  Heart, Past, College

  "Song: "Bright College Days" ("An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer")". March 20-21, 1959.

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• Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.

  Paula Abdul

  Fitness, Fun, Exercise

  FaceBook post by Paula Abdul from Jan 10, 2012

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