Past Quotes - Page 8

• We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Wise, Inspiration, Patriotic

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.54, Best Books on

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• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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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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• There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.

  Heinrich Heine

  Dark, Men, Night

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• NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Memories, Reality

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• There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. Every part of your life has unfolded just right. And so - now - knowing all that you know from where you now stand, now what do you want? The answers are now coming forth to you. Go forth in joy, and get on with it.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Life, Regret

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• No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Mistake, Today Is The Day

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Nov 10, 2011

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• Everything you have done and been through is valuable and important. In order to be who you are, to know what you know, to be where you are in this moment, you needed to go through what you went through.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Knowledge, Order, Knowing

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Feb 05, 2014

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• Has it ever struck you ... that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going? It’s really all memory ... except for each passing moment.

  Eric Kandel

  Inspirational, Life, Time

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• You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?

  Bob Marley

  Love, Relationship, Women

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• No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

  Oscar Wilde

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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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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• The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

  Alan Moore

  Heartbroken, Hurt, Vendetta

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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.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Errors, Experience

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

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• Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.

  Dan Brown

  Inspirational, Moving On, Letting Go

  Dan Brown (2006). “Deception Point”, p.645, Simon and Schuster

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• It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

  Frank Herbert

  Happiness, Waste, Impossible

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• The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

  L.P. Hartley

  Country, Memories, Future

  "The Go-Between". Book by L.P. Hartley, 1953.

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• The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

  John Berger

  Dying, Grows, Placenta

  John Berger (2011). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos”, p.78, Vintage

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• The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Time, World, Worthy

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• Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

  William Penn

  Time, Learning, Done

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• The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

  Simone Weil

  Time, Crime, Destruction

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.48, Routledge

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• That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

  William Wordsworth

  Strength, Sympathy, Time

  William Wordsworth, “Ode On Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood”

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• Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Time, Real, Healing

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.139, Pan Macmillan

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• I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Time, Thinking, Mindfulness

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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