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"History is the memory of states"
Henry Kissinger
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner
"Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different."
Oprah Winfrey
"Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now."
Oprah Winfrey
"The lessons of the past have shown us that military adventures can lead to human tragedies on a vast scale."
Vladimir Putin
"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past."
Virginia Woolf
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past"
Thomas Jefferson
"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title."
Virginia Woolf
"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past."
Virginia Woolf
"The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities."
Stephen Hawking
"Touching the present moment, we realize that the present is made of the past and is creating the future."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Study the past, if you would divine the future."
Confucius
"Don't think about the past. Just be here now."
Ram Dass
"In this bright future, you can't forget your past."
Bob Marley
"Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart."
Haruki Murakami
"Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure"
Jane Austen
"I regret the past, but at the same time, it made me who I am today."
Usher
"It's useless to look back at the past, expecting the old to be the same as the new"
Shirley MacLaine
"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them"
James Baldwin
"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