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“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
Virginia Woolf
“I like men who have a future and women who have a past”
Oscar Wilde
“Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.”
Lily Tomlin
“There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.”
Ernest Gaines
“Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.”
Fulton Oursler
“Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.”
Denis Waitley
“Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.”
Swami Sivananda
“...you may have created my past and screwed up my present but you have no control over my future.”
David Klass
“It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.”
Anthony Robbins
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be”
Marcel Pagnol