Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.Deepak Chopra
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.Bob Hope
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.Jan Glidewell
A very wise man once told me that you can't look back – you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.Jodi Picoult
If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.Les Brown
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.Denis Waitley
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.Jim Rohn
The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.Bruce Springsteen
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.George Washington
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.F. Scott Fitzgerald
The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.Finley Peter Dunne
I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.Maya Angelou
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.Denis Waitley
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.Oprah Winfrey
When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.Margaret Atwood
I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.Margaret Atwood