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By clinging to the past, you become unavailable to happiness and opportunity in the present

• We all cling to the past and because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present. Osho
• Don’t let the past steal your present. Cherralea Morgen
• Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today. John Wooden
• Never let yesterday use up today. Richard H. Nelson
• All of us have unlimited potential and a clean slate in this moment—now. What prevents us from tapping into this great potential is our own mental ties to the past. Richard Carlson
• We don’t realize that our future is being consumed by our past. JZ Knight
• You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.  Jan Glidewell
• Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone. Jerome K. Jerome
• The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. André Maurois
• Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all. Evelyn Waugh
• Don’t let the past steal your present. Terri Guillemets
• If you live your life in the past, you waste the life you have to live. Jessica Cress
• Time,  Memory,  Tradition,  Regret,  Nostalgia,  Live in the present,  Reflection,  The future

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Clinging to the past hinders the unfoldment of the future

• How can the future be moulded with hands full of baggage labeled What Was and What Could’ve Been? Where can you go with all that stuff, and how much fun will you have with it when you get there? Leave those bags behind, and hope they stay lost before you get to your next destination. All right, take a few souvenirs if you must, but just nice stuff. No junk. Michael Rawls
• In the carriages of the past you can’t go anywhere. Maxim Gorky
• If you keep going over the past, you’re going to end up with a thousand pasts and no future. Juan José Campanella
• Most of us go through each day looking for what we saw yesterday And, not surprisingly, that is what we find. James A. Kitchens
• Every hour spent reflecting on the disappointments of the past is an hour stolen from seeing the possibilities that your future holds. Robin S. Sharma
• Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors that impede appropriate action. As we become able to take action in the present, both of those factors lose power over our lives. Brenda Shoshanna
• For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
• If you stop searching, you stop living, because then you’re dwelling in the past. If you’re not reaching forward to any growth or future, you might as well be dead. Wynn Bullock
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By clinging to the past, you’re in danger of the future running out on you

• One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. Michael Cibenko
• We don’t realize that our future is being consumed by our past. JZ Knight
• We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays. Aulus Persius Flaccus
• If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. Winston Churchill

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By clinging to the past, we stop opening ourselves to the new

• For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment. Mark Twain
• Experience is the past tense of experiment. Gegory Alan Elliot

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The past can never sustain you for life is forward movement

• The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die. Susanna Kearsley
• Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. Albert Einstein
• Momentum

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Realise that yesterday is simply a memory; an illusion …

• The one wholly true thought you can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at all is therefore to think about illusions. A Course in Miracles
• The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess. Chris Cobbs
• You can only live in the past inside your mind. Augusten Burroughs
• The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you. Mike Dolan
• Past and future only exist as thoughts in your head. Eckhart Tolle
• I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. Alan Wilson Watts
• I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions. Bob Dylan
• Memory,  Illusion

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… and nothing could be further away

• There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday. Robert Nathan
• It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. Jim Bishop

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Don’t let the past imprison you or enslave you

• Do not let your shadow walk you. You are not a slave of the past.  Dodinsky
• Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past. Robin Casarjian
• We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story. Maxine Kumin
• Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. Robin Sharma
• You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind. Augusten Burroughs
• Our past may explain why we’re suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage. Joyce Meyer
• The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you. Mike Dolan
• Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive.  It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it.  Let the past go.  A simply abundant world awaits.  Sarah Ban Breathnach
• Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future. Deepak Chopra
• Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past. Rabindranath Tagore

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You cannot find yourself in the past

• You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present. Eckhart Tolle
• Don’t hold on to any self-image, because self-image is from the past. Mooji
• My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me. Steve Maraboli

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Walk out of your history for it does not define you

• Your history is not your destiny. Cohen
• Stand up and walk out of your history. Phil McGraw
• Your past history and all of your hurts are no longer here in your physical reality. Don’t allow them to be here in your mind, muddying your present moments. Wayne Dyer
• The past does not equal the future unless you live there. Tony Robbins

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Let go of your story about the past – especially if you are using it to define who you are

• The past is just a story we tell ourselves. Spike Jonze
• People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future. Chuck Palahniuk
• Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it. Marianne Williamson
• Your sense of identity, of self, is reduced to a story you keep telling yourself in your head. “Me and my story.” Eckhart Tolle
• We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story. Maxine Kumin
• The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story. Byron Katie
• Watch the mind as it tries, in every moment, to co-opt experience by translating it into a story. It tries to draw you away from experience into a mental world that simulates experience. If it succeeds, that story becomes your experience. Gina Lake
• If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want. Paulo Coelho
• There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future. Eleanor Brown
• The stories that you tell about your past shape your future. Eric Ransdell

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Be who you want to be right now, irrespective of who you were in the past

• Dwell not on the past, use it to illustrate a point then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now, in this moment of time. From this moment onward you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed. Eileen Caddy
• Don’t hold on to any self-image, because self-image is from the past. Mooji
• I am not what has happened. I am what I choose to become.  Carl Jung

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Die to the past, each and every moment …

• There is only one courage and that is the courage to go on dying to the past, not to collect it, not to accumulate it, not to cling to it. Osho Rajneesh
• Die to the past every moment. You don’t need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Eckhart Tolle
• You need to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old. Sarah Ban Breathnach
• Live in the present,  Carpe diem (Seize the day)

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… especially at the end of each day

• 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 cumbered with your old nonsense. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Old times” never come back and I suppose it’s just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that’s better.  George E. Woodberry

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You need to shed the old to make room for the new

• Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter. Eileen Caddy
• You can’t reach for anything NEW if your hands are full of yesterday’s junk. Louise Smith
• The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday. Steve Maraboli
• You can’t reach what’s in front of you, until you let go of what’s behind you.
• We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. Joseph Campbell
• Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. Brooks Atkinson

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You need to shed your past to make room for your dreams of the future

• I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. Thomas Jefferson
• I am not my memories. I am my dreams. Terry Hostetler
• Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined.  Henry David Thoreau
• Know yourself more by your dreams for the future than your memories of the past
• The future,  Dreams

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Letting go of the past creates awareness and unleashes creative energy

• If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away. Steve Jobs
• In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. It will be a permanent Self, rooted in awareness and creativity. Once you have captured this, you have captured the world. Deepak Chopra
• A person who lives moment to moment, who goes on dying to the past, is never attached to anything. Attachment comes from the accumulated past. If you can be unattached to the past every moment, then you are always fresh, young, just born. You pulsate with life and that pulsation gives you immortality. You are immortal, only unaware of the fact. Osho
• Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future. Eric Berne
• Awareness,  Creativity

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Let go of the past by accepting it as it is

• Accept your past without regret, handle your present with confidence, and face your future without fear.
• Only by acceptance of the past can you alter it. S. Eliot
• Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past. Dan Brown
• Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t “should’ve” done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day! Steve Marabol
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Let go of the past by becoming fully present in the now

• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Buddha
• When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need it anymore. Presence is the key. Now is the key. Eckhart Tolle
• The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. Eckhart Tolle
• You may think that you need more time to understand the past or become free of it, in other words, that the future will eventually free you of the past. This is a delusion. Only the present can free you of the past. Eckhart Tolle
• When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment. Letting go of the past means you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now. Don Miguel Ruiz
• A spiritual practice draws you into the simplicity of the moment. There is nothing like regular practice to bring you into the now, and to keep you from getting lost in the past or mired in fears of the future. Maggie Lyon
• By living deeply in the present moment, we can understand the past better and we can prepare for a better future. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Do not be attached to the past or wait for the future. Be grateful for each day, that is enough. I do not believe in a future world, I deny the past. I believe entirely in the present. Employ your entire body and mind in the eternal now. Santoka Taneda
• Do not carry the burden of the past; do not live in the future. The only important thing is that one lives in the present authentically and fully. Whatever your current life is, be the most you can be by living in the moment. Chan Chih
• Do not pursue the past. Do not usher in the future. Rest evenly with present awareness. Tibetan meditation instruction
• Fear is only a construct of people who are mindful of the past and the future. Fear has no place in the present moment.  Eckhart Tolle
• Find the point where the past is over and the future is yet to begin. Nick Nakov
• Forget about the past. It does not exist, except in your memory. Drop it. And stop worrying about how you’re going to get through tomorrow. Life is going on Right Here, Right Now — pay attention to that and all will be well. Neale Donald Walsch
• How can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now. Rumi
• I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. Abraham Maslow
• I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. William Somerset Maugham
• If my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world. Alan Watts
• If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present. Lao Tzu
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Let go of the past be embracing today

• No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today. Brendan Francis
• The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday. Steve Maraboli
• Shut off yesterday and the past. This time is dead. Shut off tomorrow and the future This time is not yet born. Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession. Dale Carnegie
• Shut the iron doors on the past and the future. Live in Day-tight compartments. Dale Carnegie
• Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. Wayne Dyer
• Appeciate the lessons of the past and enjoy the newness of the future, yet remember the present is today. Annette Thomas
• At any given moment in time, we are at the meeting place of two great eternities, the past that has endured forever and the future that is before us, until the last syllable of time. We cannot live in either of these eternities, even for a split second. Trying to do so will damage our minds and then our bodies. Be content to live the only time that we possiby can, from when we wake up until when we sleep. Anyone can get through one day, no matter what their challenges. This is all that life really means. Every day is a new life to a wise man. Life is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour and moment. Dale Carnegie
• Here’s the advice Sir William Osler gave the students at Yale: “Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to live today superbly well. William Osler
• Embrace the gift of today,  Carpe diem (Seize the day)

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Let go of the past by embracing change

• Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer. Gloria Steinem
• Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past. Emily Giffin
• At times, old choices–old threads–wear out. We see the past while we live in the present, and we can replace the old…with new ideas, new choices, and new actions. Steve Brunkhorst
• Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they’ve always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you’re a leader, you can’t let your people hang on to the past. Richard Marcinko
• Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. John F. Kennedy
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Only you can give the past any power over you in the present

• The past has no power over the present moment. Eckhart Tolle
• The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance?  The baggage of old thought and emotion.  Eckhart Tolle
• Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now. Oprah Winfrey
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If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then choose to forget it

• Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. Sholem Asch
• Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it – torn up to irrecoverable tatters. Samuel Butler

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Weep not for old griefs

• Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. Euripides

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Look where you’re going, not where you’ve come from

• Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror. Colin Powell
• Don’t look back, you’re not going that way. Marcia Wallace
• To stand in your now, looking forward with deliberate intent and anticipation of what is to come, is infinitely more satisfying than to stand in your now, looking back, retracing your steps as to how you got where you are. Abraham-Hicks
• You can’t change the world from the rearview mirror. Anita Roddick
• Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. Henry David Thoreau
• Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. Edna Ferber
• The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness. Pierre Trudeau
• Stay away from what might have been and look at what will be. Marsha Petrie Su

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While you can’t change the past, you can act now to change the future

• You can’t change the past; it has happened and it is what it is. Fixating on it isn’t going to get you anywhere. You can only change the present to create a better future. Celestine Chua
• Nothing we can do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future. Ashleigh Brilliant
• Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past. Tryon Edwards
• Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future. Denis Waitley
• You can’t change the world from the rearview mirror. Anita Roddick
• The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it. Wendell Berry
• Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change. Tom Clancy
• Regrets over the past should chasten the future. James Ellis
• Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. Robin Sharma
• Proactiveness,  Making a fresh start

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Realise there is nothing you can do to change the past

• If you believe that feeling bad will change a past event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. Wayne Dyer
• Even God cannot change the past. Agathon
• No man is rich enough to buy back his past. Oscar Wilde
• There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled. Sophocles
• We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it’s like chasing clouds. Libba Bray
• In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. Stefan Zweig
• A ton of regret never makes an ounce of difference. Grenville Kleiser
• Only in your imagination can you revise. Fay Wray
• The past can’t be changed, can it? It can just be forgiven.  Elizabeth George
• Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes. Steve Maraboli
• The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven. Orson Scott Card
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While you can’t change the past, you can change how you perceive it and what it means to you

• No matter what has happened in your life, you have the power to change what that event means to you and thus, change your experience, both emotionally and physically. Therein lies your power to heal. Christiane Northrup
• Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes. Steve Maraboli
• We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people act in a certain way. We cannot 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
• We cannot change past events, no matter how painful, but we can always intend how we ‘feel’ about them and heal ourselves. Robert Anthony
• The way to reduce the pain which you associate with earthly experiences and events—both yours and those of others—is to change the way you behold them. Neale Donald Walsch
• Perception,  Interpretation,  Attitude

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Use the past simply as a teacher …

• The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post. Thomas Holdcroft
• I use memories, but I will not allow memories to use me. Deepak Chopra
• The past should be a learning experience not an everlasting punishment. What’s done is done.
• We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. Frederick Douglass
• You have to know the past to understand the present. Carl Sagan
• We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience. George Washington
• The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
• Bring the past only if you are going to build from it. Doménico Cieri Estrada
• We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it. Sharon Salzberg
• Never regret your past. Rather, embrace it as the teacher that it is. Robin S. Sharma
• You can’t change the world from the rearview mirror. Anita Roddick
• We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present. Adlai E. Stevenson
• Learning,  Life is a university

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… as something to reflect on and learn from; and then move on

• You can’t face forward until you’ve processed your past. If your history goes unexamined and ignored, it can become an annoying character that keeps showing up in your life script—in your conversations, in your thoughts. Danielle LaPorte
• Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana
• If you can assess how yesterday’s agony affected you, then you not only defuse its potential grip on you, but you also place it where you want it to be in your psyche. By observing it, you transform it. Danielle LaPorte
• The willingness to interpret and integrate the lessons of hardship is a key characteristic to forward- facing people. They get it. And they move on. Danielle LaPorte
• Appreciate the lessons of the past and enjoy the newness of the future, yet remember the present is today. Annette Thomas
• Think about your three favorite screwups. What did you learn? Can you see a pattern in the lessons you learned?  How did what you learned change the way you approach things?  Danielle LaPorte
• From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future. John Quincy Adams
• I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s where the fun is. Donald Trump
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Learn from past mistakes and failure, but don’t brood over them

• 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. Sivananda
• Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures, we should put them behind us and go ahead, for vain regretting interferes with the flow of power into our own personalities. Edith Johnson
• You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.  Close the door on the past.  You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.  Johnny Cash
• One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past. James Long
• It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past. Aldous Huxley
• Mistakes,  Failure

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Know when something has reached its end and allow the door to close…

• It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.  Paulo Coelho

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… for when one door closes, another door always opens

• When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. Alexander Graham Bell
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No matter how hard the past, you can always make a new beginning

• The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. Ralph Blum
• No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again. Buddha
• Though no-one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new end.
• So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh. Freeman Dyson
• There will be a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. Louis L’Amour
• It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy. Jane Fonda
• The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. Aberjhani
• It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening. G. Wells

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Don’t drown in nostalgia because it can be a seductive liar

• It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia. Ted Koppel
• Things ain’t what they used to be and probably never was. Will Rogers
• Nostalgia is a seductive liar. George Wildman Ball
• Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. Franklin Pierce Adams
• People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren’t so crazy about the first time around.
• Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. Doug Larson
• True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. Florence King
• How many people long for that “past, simpler, and better world,” I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them? A. Salvatore
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Don’t be nostalgic about the past.  Be nostalgic about now.

• We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don’t think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great.  If you’re hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.  Art Buchwald
• People are always asking about the good old days. I say, why don’t you say the good now days?  Robert M. Young
• Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now!  Alice Childress

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Do not regret the past

• A ton of regret never makes an ounce of difference. Grenville Kleiser
• Never regret your past. Rather, embrace it as the teacher that it is. Robin S. Sharma
• In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. Stefan Zweig
• We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it’s like chasing clouds. Libba Bray
• Regrets over the past should chasten the future. James Ellis
• Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Don’t regret your past hardships for they have made you who you are

• I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life’s experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life’s experiences would be a great mistake. Luis Miguel
• I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person. Rita Mero
• Drop the drama about your difficult past. Be proud of your time in hell. Steve Chandler
• I don’t regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals. Paulo Coelho
• When looking back at your life, you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failures followed by wreckage were the incidents that shaped the life you have now. Joseph Campbell
• Looking back, we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings. Dan Millman
• I’ve never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don’t understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.  Sophia Loren
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Everything that has happened in the past has brought you to where you’re meant to be which is right here, right now

• 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. Abraham/Hicks
• As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents fits into the larger pattern like a mosaic in a preconceived design. Margaret Sanger
• Each experience in your life was absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment. Wayne Dyer
• As I look back at the entire tapestry of my life, I can see from the perspective of the present moment that every aspect of my life was necessary and perfect. Each step eventually led to a higher place, even though these steps often felt like obstacles or painful experiences.  Wayne Dyer
• Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places.
• …everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future. Chaim Potok
• Divine order

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Let go of painful emotions from the past …

• The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. Barbara De Angelis
• Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?  Leo Buscaglia
• The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit. Jack Kornfield
• Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today? Mary Manin Morrissey
• In examining our own lives, we might be able to spot the heavy weight of yesterday’s deeds that we persist in carrying around with us. We might be carrying bitterness and resentment because we may have felt betrayed by a friend.  We might be carrying anger and a feeling of injustice because we lost out on something we really wanted while someone else got it.  We might be carrying hurt feelings because someone we liked criticized us.  But continuing to carry harsh and negative feelings from the past can be like picking up a pebble in your shoe while you are out walking.  You can stop and remove the pebble, or you can continue to walk and let the pebble irritate your foot and cause pain.  The choice is yours.  You can release your anger and hurt feelings, just as you can remove the pebble from your shoe.  John Marks Templeton
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… especially through the practice of forgiveness

• Forgiveness means letting go of the past. Gerald Jampolsky
• Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Robin Casarjian
• The past can’t be changed, can it? It can just be forgiven. Elizabeth George
• The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that’s why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they’ve really done is they’ve shifted their relationship with time. Caroline Myss
• Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different. Oprah Winfrey
• Forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. Lewis B. Smedes
• Through forgiveness, which essentially means recognizing the insubstantiality of the past and allowing the present moment to be as it is, the miracle of transformation happens not only within but also without. Eckhart Tolle
• Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. Paul Boese
• Forgive yourself. Let the past go. You did the best you could at the time with the understanding, awareness, and knowledge that you had. Now you are growing and changing, and you will live life differently. Louise L. Hay
• The past can’t be changed, can it? It can just be forgiven.  Elizabeth George
• Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing. Brian L. Weiss
• Forgiveness frees you of the past so you can make good choices today. Barbara Johnson
• Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment —- allow it to be as it is —- then there will be no accumulation of resentment that needs to be forgiven at some later time. Eckhart Tolle
• If you did something wrong or hurtful, you will have to accept that you cannot change the past. But you can make amends for your behavior, if and when it’s appropriate. Do so, apologize, or make-up for the inappropriate behavior in a timely manner, but then let it go.  John M. Grohol
• Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions. Gerald G. Jampolsky
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• Confucius say if you continue to live in the past your life is history. Confucius
• Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. William R. Inge
• Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. Oscar Wilde
• He who believes that the past cannot be changed has not yet written his memoirs. Torvald Gahlin
• I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. Herb Caen
• I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past; I think the past was not predictable when it started. Donald Rumsfeld
• I’ve got my faults but living in the past isn’t one of them; there’s no future in it. Sparky Anderson
• If you believe the past can’t be changed you haven’t read a celebrity’s autobiography. Sam Ewing
• Neurotic: Someone who worries about things that didn’t happen in the past instead of worrying about things that won’t happen in the future.
• Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect! Owens Lee Pomeroy
• Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect. The Lion
• Surely we’ll dig up the past in order to bury the hatchet.
• The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past. Samuel Butler
• The future according to some scientists will be exactly like the past only more expensive. John Sladek
• The only advantage to living in the past is that the rents are much cheaper! Alfred E. Neuman
• The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. Whitney Brown
• God cannot alter the past but historians can. Samuel Butler
• The past always looks better than it was because it isn’t here. Finley Peter Dunne
• The past does not repeat itself but it rhymes. Mark Twain
• The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess. James Thurber
• Those that forget the pasta are doomed to reheat it.
• Those who don’t study the past will repeat its errors; those who do study it will find OTHER ways to err. Wolf’s Law of History Lessons
• Whenever I think about the past it just brings back so many memories. Steven Wright
• Worrying about the future is a thing of the past. Pat Paulsen
• A lot of people go through life like they are rowing a boat. They look at where they have been rather than where they are going.
• Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future. Paul Orfalea

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