Forget The Past Quotes - Page 3

• Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

  Ba Jin

  Past, Forget, Masters

  "Literary witness to century of turmoil". "China Daily", November 24, 2003.

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• When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say.

  Lionel Richie

  Past, Answers, Nothing New

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• Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.

  Nicole Kidman

  Past, Live In The Moment, Forget

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Feb 04, 2017

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• When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

  Jules Verne

  Character, Past, Mind

  Jules Verne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated)”, p.4355, Delphi Classics

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• She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer. Because tonight Oliver wasn't that man. Not to her. He was the boy who'd cried over his dead mother, the young man who'd lost himself in drink and women to forget the past, the marquess who'd vowed not to marry for money. He was the man to be her lover.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Mother, Boys, Past

  Sabrina Jeffries (2015). “The Truth About Lord Stoneville”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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• Fill your heart with the creative power to accept the past, decorate the present and transform the future.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Heart, Apology

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• Once we have forgiven, however, we get a new freedom to forget. This time forgetting is a sign of health; it is not a trick to avoid spiritual surgery. We can forget because we have been healed. But even if it is easier to forget after we forgive, we should not make forgetting a test of our forgiving. The test of forgiving lies with healing the lingering pain of the past, not with forgetting the past has ever happened.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Spiritual, Pain, Lying

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• Things change, people change, but that doesn't mean you should forget the past.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Mean, Past, People

  "Ella Enchanted". Book by Gail Carson Levine, 1997.

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• You don't have to forget the past to start enjoying the present.

  Kentaro Yabuki

  Past, Forget, Enjoy

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• The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

  Oscar Wilde

  Past, Charm, Past Present Future

  Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• If possible, forget the past. Look forward to the future.

  Henry Watkins Allen

  Happy Birthday, War, Past

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• God forgets the past... Imitate Him.

  Max Lucado

  Past, Forget

  FaceBook post by Max Lucado from Sep 06, 2011

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• True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.

  Nelson Mandela

  Past, Doe, Forget

  Nelson Mandela (1996*). “Statement of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the occasion of the 84th anniversary of the African National Congress: January 8 1996”

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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. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.

  Eric Hoffer

  Courage, Pain, Past

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• There are different ways to be confused about how someone's disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it will give you both a future.

  Laura Dave

  Confused, Lying, Past

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• Im such a work in progress at the moment, its crazy, and life wants me on edge, I swear to you. But as long as I dont forget the past, Im cool. One must always be mindful, just like you might forget that old girlfriend who tried to slit your throat, but shes really still hot. If you remember the stitches more than you remember the pussy, youre going to be just fine.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Girlfriend, Crazy, Past

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• There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a virgin's spirit into a perpetual awareness that makes a person forget the past, for it kindles fiercely in the heart the sweet and overwhelming hope of the coming future.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Sweet, Heart

  Khalil Gibran “Khalil The Heretic”, Library of Alexandria

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• Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.

  Sivananda

  Giving Up, Yoga, Future

  Swami Sivananda (1964). “Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement”

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• Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Time, Past

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Mother, Nature, Memories

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• Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Memories, Healing

  "Healing by Degrees" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2014.

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• O little one, My little one, Come with me, Your life is done. Forget the future, Forget the past. Life is over: Breathe your last.

  Clive Barker

  Past, Done, Littles

  "Abarat". Book by Clive Barker, September 1, 2002.

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• Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.

  Sarah Dessen

  Past, Remember You, Remembers You

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.208, Penguin

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• If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Past, Would Be, Looks

  Saint Therese of Lisieux (2007). “The Story of the Soul”, p.175, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There's no room for anything else. You forget that you're tired or cold or hungry. You forget that banged-up knee and your aching tooth. You forget the past, and you forget that there's such a thing as a future.

  John Marsden

  Tired, Past, Knees

  John Marsden (1998). “A Killing Frost”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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