When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.
Chuck Palahniuk
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
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience.
George Washington
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Spiro T. Agnew
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
Jack Dempsey
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
William Ralph Inge
I look back on my life like a good day's work; it was done and I am satisfied with it.
Anna Mary Robertson Moses
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
Isabelle Eberhardt
The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
Don Rickles
The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
Marshall McLuhan
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
Vladimir Nabokov
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
A. Whitney Brown
You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.
Chuck Palahniuk
He who controls the past controls the future.
George Orwell
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together; to wish to do greater; these are the essential conditions which make up a people.
Ernest Renan
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