"Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future."
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"It's important to learn the right lessons from the past."
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"The inside of my wallet is pasture(past your) green."
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"I don't know why everyone is making dance movies. I auditioned for three dance movies in the past two months and for one of them I just couldn't do it."
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"They take the greats from the past and compare us. I wonder if they'd ever survive in this era. In a time where it's recreation, to pull all your skeletons out the closet like Halloween decorations."
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"I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past for them."
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"You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment...The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called the present."
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"You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is your self left over from yesterday."
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"Only creativity can see past problems to find solutions. This holds true for every area of life."
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"Reality isn't a vast, fixed scheme trapping you without choice. At any moment you have the choice to break out of what is really trapping you-your automatic reactions dredged up from the past."
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"The past is closed and limited; the future is open and free."
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"Most of us have no idea what we can do because we are totally conditioned by the past. Our memories, beliefs, assumptions, prejudices, and stresses conspire to trap us in one boundary after another. We need to escape from this."
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"We either allow our past to keep interfering with our optimal expression of love and happiness, or we can move beyond our past with renewed passion for life"
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"We are programmed by our past beliefs, which we inherited from our parents, our cultural traditions sometimes, and our social conditioning."
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"To promote the healing response, you must get past all the grosser levels of the body - cells, tissues, organs and systems -- and arrive at a junction point between mind and matter, the point where consciousness actually starts to have an effect."
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"I experience true freedom when I accept, understand, and move on from the conditioning of the past."
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"The mind loves whatever repeats a pleasurable experience from the past. "I love this" basically means "I love repeating what felt so good before"."
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"Bliss cannot be found by remembering the past or anticipating the future."
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"The only way to atone for the past is to do something meaningful in the present."
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"If you want to know what your thoughts were like in the past, look at your body today. If you want to know what your body will look like in the future, look at your thoughts today."
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