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Esther Hicks Author, Speaker
Past

"I'm going to be happy. I'm going to skip. I'm going to be glad. I'm going to be easy. I'm going to count my blessings. I'm going to look for reasons to feel good. I'm going to dig up positive things from the past. I'm going to look for positive things where I stand. I'm going to look for positive things in the future. It is my natural state to be a happy person. It's natural for me to love and to laugh. This is what is most natural for me. I am a happy person."

Past Happiness Blessing
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Daniel Kahneman Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
Past

"One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress."

Past Progress Get Better
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Desmond Tutu Theologian, Activist
Past

"As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption."

Long Past Faces
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Dom Kennedy Rapper
Past

"The past doesn't have anything to do with the future, only if you let it."

Past
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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
Past

"So what I tend to do is to think of today as the past. It's funny when you comin in first but you hope that you last.. You just hope that it lasts."

Thinking Past Humble
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Claude Monet Painter
Past

"I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that's enough."

Past Done Criticism
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Brent Smith Musician
Past

"Well, [bluntness in songwriting]'s a lot cheaper than therapy.... There's been a lot of things going on for the past 10 years that I just never really confronted, or used metaphors to do so. This time out I wanted to make sure that everyone knows what I'm talking about and where I'm coming from."

Writing Past Talking
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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
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"If, then, 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."

World Real Past
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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
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"Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing about how you look and how people see you. Be afraid of not getting your writing done."

Writing Past Emotional
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Ansel Adams Photographer
Past

"I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence."

Past Fall Vision
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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"O my good lord, that comfort comes too late, 'Tis like a pardon after execution. That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me; But now I am past all comforts here but prayers."

Past Prayer Execution
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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
Past

"time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present."

Past Might Time
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Richard Ford Novelist
Past

"The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better."

Art Past Loss
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Robin Sharma Author, Speaker
Past

"Every second you spend thinking about what you don't want in your life is a second denying focus and energy from getting what you do want. Every minute you worry about what's not working is a minute drawn away from creating what will work. And every hour spent reflecting on the disappointments of the past is an hour stolen from seeing the possibilities that your future holds."

Thinking Past Disappointment
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