While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future. - Ronald Reagan Rising from the past, my shadow Is running in silence to meet me. - Anna Akhmatova Your message is stupid. Iraq is not afraid of you or anyone else when it has a right to claim. What you warned about is not on Iraq's agenda. Iraq is vital and powerful. It is not an opportunistic country. Your administration has not learned from the past. - Mohammed Aldouri He wondered what a visitor from the past would make of it. It used to be the poor who were thin and the rich who were fat, now it seemed to be the other way round. - Kate Atkinson Learn from the past, but don't live in the past. - Steve Maraboli Thoughts are real', he said. 'Words are real. Everything human is real, and sometimes we know things before they happen, even if we aren't aware of it. We live in the present, but the future is inside us at every moment. Maybe that's what writing is all about, Sid....

Life is messy, Ren. It's not easy and it's definitely not for the timid. Everyone has a past. - Sherrilyn Kenyon Everyone has a past, but that's just it-it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it. - Nicholas Sparks Everyone has a past. - Darrell Issa

Rather than dwelling on the past, we should make the most of today, of the here and now, doing all we can to provide pleasant memories for the future...If you are still in the process of raising children be aware that the tiny fingerprints that show up on almost every newly cleaned surface, the toys scattered about the house, the piles and piles of laundry to be tackled, will disappear all too soon, and that you will, to your surprise, miss them, profoundly. - Thomas S Monson No use dwelling on the past. What you do tomorrow and the next day and the day after that is what matters. - Kieran Scott

I'm a person who really doesn't dwell on the past. - Ronnie Lott Just that dwelling and planning is bullshit, you dwell on the past, you can't move forward. Spend too much time planning for the future and you just push yourself backwards, or you stay stagnant in the same place all your life. Live in the moment, where everything is just right, take your time and limit your bad memories and you'll get wherever it is you're going a lot faster and with less bumps in the road along the way. - J A Redmerski You dwell on the past, you can't move forward. Spend too much time planning for the future and you just push yourself backwards, or you stay stagnant in the same place all your life." "Live in the moment," he says as if making a serious point, "Where everything is just right, take your time and limit your bad memories and you'll get wherever it is you're going a lot faster and with less bumps in the way. - J A Redmerski I don't li...

Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do"; "Accept the past as past without denying it or discarding it"; "Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others"; "Don't assume that it's too late to get involved." "Dying, is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else. So many of the people who come to visit me are unhappy." - Tuesday With Morrie - Mitch Albom Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. - Mitch Albom He wrote bite-sized philosophies about living with death's shadow: "Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do"; "Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it"; "Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others"; "Don't assume that it's too late to get involved. - Mitch Albom If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the oth...

It is okay of talking about the past, as long as there's no bitterness and anger. It only gives you a heart attack. It won't change the past either. - Ann Marie Aguilar The future would end up finding out the truth about the past. - Paulo Coelho Do not concern yourself with what you know or what you do not know. Do not think about the past or the future, merely allow God's hands to write the surprises of the present on each new day. - Paulo Coelho Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it. - Ernest Hemingway They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions. - Isaac Asimov The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. - Oscar Wilde Except among those whose education has ...

If you're looking for a deep album or you're looking for me to talk about past situations, it's not even about that. It's just 14 hot records that are gonna make you dance. - Puff Daddy I think about pasta in the shape of Hello Kitty, stockings with diamond seams up the back, Marilyn's crumbling cake-mascara, and Liz Taylor's new white hair. I haven't got time for the trivials. - Emma Forrest Everyone is lonely," Ranulf said, but he smiled. "We have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about past or future. Happiness is in the now." Raquel laughed. "Vic has totally brainwashed you. - Claudia Gray I have bread, water, and lovewhat more can a man ask for? How about pasta, wine, and sex. - Jarod Kintz People should learn to live in the now. They spend all their time thinking about past glories and worrying about the future. Meanwhile all the moments of spontaneity and beauty they'll ever have in t...

It's the thought of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. All things happen for a reason. - Paulo Coelho I'm one of those people that thinks things happen for a reason, and you just have to look for the reason. - Clint Black I want to feel it somehow happened like that because things happen for a reason. I want to believe this more than anything because if it were just an accident, then God must have died before he could finish the world. - Simon Van Booy Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot. - Neal Shusterman I think that things happen for a reason. - Dave Davies You believe in Destiny, don't you?" "Yes," said Leah quietly. "Then you have to believe that things happen for a reason, and even if you change something. Destiny will find a way to fulfill her needs." - Jasmine - Jacquelyn Frank S...

Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason. - Douglas Adams Dor: There is a reason God limits our days. Victor: Why? Dor: To make each one precious. - Mitch Albom There is a reason God limits man's days. - Mitch Albom Remember this always: There is a reason God limits man's days - Mitch Albom Dor: there is a reason God lmits our days. Victor: why? Dor: to make each one precious. - Mitch Albom There is a reason God limits our days. Why? To make each one precious. -the time keeper - Mitch Albom There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition. - Jodi Picoult There is a reason why past is past. - Dean Francis Alfar There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time. - Elizabeth Gilbert Personally, I'm an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two yea...

There is a reason for everything. You might not be able to figure it out, and time might have made us all forget it, but the reason is there all the same. - Maria V Snyder Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything. - Rick Springfield

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework. - Ben Aaronovitch I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself. - Mark Twain Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause. - Jack Henry Abbott The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest. - Lyman Abbott Religion is not a conclusion of the reason. - Lyman Abbott The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. - Lascelles Abercrombie Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children... it is the reason that one human being's intensely personal tests and triumphs can be ha...

She was nervous about the future; it made her indelicate. She was one of the most unimportantly wicked women of her time --because she could not let her time alone, and yet could never be a part of it. She wanted to be the reason for everything and so was the cause of nothing. She had the fluency of tongue and action meted out by divine providence to those who cannot think for themselves. She was the master of the over-sweet phrase, the over-tight embrace. - Djuna Barnes You have to think there's a reason for everything. When a door closes another door opens. - Chris Daughtry Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything. - Josh Groban I dont know what I ever done, she said. I truly dont. Chigurh nodded. Probably you do, he said. There's a reason for everything. She shook her head. How many times I've said them very words. I wont again. - Cormac Mccarthy Have a very good reason for everything you do. - Laurence Ol...

There is no season and no reason for love. Love is not seasonal its perennial. - Amit Abraham I do not know what is happening. The reason of my waking mind tells me that great evil has befallen and we stand at the end of days. But my heart says nay; and all my limbs are light, and a hope and joy are come to me that no reason can deny. I do not believe that darkness will endure! - J R R Tolkien Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh. - Douglas Adams Rob McKenna was a miserable bastard and he knew it because he'd had a lot of people point it out to him over the years and he saw no reason to disagree with them except the obvious one which was that he liked disagreeing with people, particularly people he disliked, which included, at the last count, everybody. - Douglas Adams There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me. -...