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“We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.”
Charles R. Swindoll
“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
George Santayana
“Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.”
Carlos Santana
“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
“All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.”
Dale Carnegie
“Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some”
Charles Dickens
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”
Albert Einstein
“What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now . . .”
William Glasser
“Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes”
Oscar Wilde
“There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe