"The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage - it’s okay for clothes not that great for people"
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"Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them."
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"The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause."
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"Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future."
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"We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate."
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"The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past."
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"Life... by Marshall Mathers... What is life ? Life is like a big obstacle put in front of your optical to slow you down... And everytime you think you gotten past it It's gonna come back around and tackle you to the damn ground"
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"Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so."
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"What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him? "No, thank you," he will think. "Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these things are things that cannot inspire envy.""
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"I will practice coming back to the present moment...not letting regrets and sorrow drag me back into the past or letting anxieties, fears, or cravings pull me out."
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"The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise."
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"I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present."
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"Don't think of yourself as having a past, don't think of yourself as having a future. What's left?"
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"The past is a pebble in my shoe."
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"I have a checkered past. I'll take any eyeliner that comes my way."
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"Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you."
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"The past is always with us, for it feeds the present."
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"Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment."
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"What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it."
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"In the past, when people criticized me for asking unexpected questions, I felt ashamed. Now I realize that normal people are acting in a superficial and often false manner. So rather than let them make me feel bad, I express my annoyance. It's my way of trying to strike a blow for logic and rationality."
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