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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.
Ivern Ball
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
George W. Ball
If you must cry over spilled milk then please try to condense it
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It's very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled the past, and, having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue.
A lot of people go through life like they are rowing a boat. They look at where they have been (the PAST) rather than where they are going (the FUTURE).
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
The beauty of the past is that it is the past. The beauty of the now is to know it. The beauty of the future is to see where one is going.
The rewards in life go to those who are willing to give up the past
If you look back too much, you will soon be headed that way
Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.
John Green
In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.
Jodi Picoult
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
Francis Herbert Hedge
Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
Sir Philip Sidney
Posterity will pay everyone their due.
Tacitus
Night falls fast. Today is in the past.
They spend their time looking forward to the past.
John Osborne
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar Wilde
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title
Virginia Woolf
The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.
John Welch
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 von Goethe
