1. “Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.”― George Santayana
2. “The past is a demon that not even death can shake.” ― Steven Erikson
3. “A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.” ― Charles Darwin
4. “When you accept things as they are, you allow yourself to make choices, that will help create the change you seek.” ― Patricia Dsouza
5. “What you had yesterday is only memories; what you will have tomorrow is your dreams and what you will do today, let it be love.” ― Santosh Kalwar
6. “Leaders build the future with clays of the past. Every good moment gives them ideas; every bad moment gives them lessons.” ― Israelmore Ayivor
7. “If you do not cultivate your life’s environment, you will not captivate the worlds enlightenment.” ― Ricky Maye
8. “I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.” ― Dwayne Johnson
9. “Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.” ― Jodi Picoult
10. “Today I am leading because yesterday I was reading.” ― Amit Kalantri
11. “One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.” ― Golda Meir
12. “The past can’t hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.” ― Alan Moore
13. “The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.” ― H. G. Wells
14. “The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.” ― Unknown
15. “I can’t. You can’t rewrite the past.” ― Jay Asher,
16. “Love can only be true and free when you are fully healed from painful past and any form of brokenness.” ― Kemi Sogunle
17. “We cannot change the past. We can only take action in the present and, therefore, change the future.” ― Ken Poirot
18. “Even if you time travel your past, it can’t be changed, likewise, you can’t possibly change your future, it is always the present which matters.” ― Pushpa Rana
19. “Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.” ― Robin Sharma
20. “Hanging on to resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.” ― Ann Landers
21. “When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
22. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” ― Bill Keane
23. “When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.” ― Clarice Lispector
24. “The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.” – Philip Emeagwali
25. “You couldn’t erase the past. You couldn’t even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.” ― Ann Brashares
26. “The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.” ― Robert Plant
27. “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” ― Mother Theresa
28. “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” ― Thomas Jefferson
29. “Life’s all about balance. To move on in life you have to strike a balance between your past, present, and your future; you may either be jerked off or left behind.” ― Richmond Akhigbe
30. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” ― Buddha
31. “I realise there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.” ― Jeffrey McDaniel
32. “Don’t torture yourself over the past. Use it as a teacher. Whatever happened to you in the past, has only prepared you for now.” ― Robert Tew
33. “Study the past, if you would divine the future.” ― Confucius
34. “If we wish to see where our future is headed, all we need to do is have a look at our past and that will tell us all the answers.” ― Anthony T. Hincks
35. “What’s done is done.” ― Hilliard MacBeth
36. “I saw this was the way of the future, to leave the past behind as if it were a dream.” ― Alice Hoffman
37. “The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.” ― H.G. Wells
38. “The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me – and I love to live life at full throttle.” ― Janice Dickinson
39. “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” ― John F. Kennedy
40. “The past has no power over the present moment.” ― Eckhart Tolle
41. “You cannot build an empire on a graveyard. The ghosts of the past will it down.” ― Shreya Naik
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