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Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

— Jane Austen

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

— Søren Kierkegaard

Life is divided into three terms — that which was, which is, and which will be.

— William Wordsworth

Study the past if you would divine the future.

— Confucius

I can't go back to yesterday — because I was a different person then.

— Lewis Carroll

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The past is a stepping stone, not a milestone to rest on forever.

Let go of the past so the future can take your hand.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Every Saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

— Oscar Wilde

Grandmothers are voices of the past and role models of the present.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

— Cicero

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

— Haruki Murakami

What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.

— Anne Frank

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I am a part of all that I have met.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

— Victor Hugo

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

— C. S. Lewis

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