"Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now."
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"If your past is limited, your future is boundless."
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"The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them."
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"The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened."
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"I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you."
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"No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!"
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"We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality."
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"Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future."
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"There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present."
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
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"Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past." "He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past."
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"I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions."
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"If the devil starts bringing up your past it's because he's running out of new material!"
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"If you don't make peace with your past it will keep showing up in your present."
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"Im such a work in progress at the moment, its crazy, and life wants me on edge, I swear to you. But as long as I dont forget the past, Im cool. One must always be mindful, just like you might forget that old girlfriend who tried to slit your throat, but shes really still hot. If you remember the stitches more than you remember the pussy, youre going to be just fine."
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"Definitely I know that every negative condition of the past is cleared away from my consciousness. I no longer think about it, see it, or believe in it. Nor do I believe that it has any effect whatsoever in my experience. Yesterday is not, tomorrow is not, but today, bright with hope and filled with promise, is mine. Today I live."
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"The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in rememberance more than long things past."
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"Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things--to help, or at least to do no harm."
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"You have only one life and it will soon be past, and only what's done for Christ will last."
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"Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period."
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