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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES ROSE MACAULAY MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA LYDIA MILLET Reinvent yourself. Don't let your past weigh you down. MARTY RUBIN MARCEL PROUST You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently. MARTY RUBIN ERNEST HEMINGWAY MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY GAELIC PROVERB ARNOLD H. GLASGOW AGNES REPPLIER HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I'd sooner make fresh mistakes today than correct the errors of the past. MARTY RUBIN Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now. FREDERICK DODSON RICHARD CARLSON What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation. ALFRED WHITEHEAD ANGELA CARTER THOMAS S. MONSON ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present. JONATHAN HARNISCH We have tears in our eyes ROALD DAHL RICHARD CARLSON ASSEGID HABTEWOLD My youth is like a scab: under it there is a wound that every day leaks blood. It disfigures me. GOTTFRIED BENN MARGARET ATWOOD CHUCK PALAHNIUK DALAI LAMA RICHARD DREYFUSS Invent a past for the present. DANIEL STERN There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now EUGENE O'NEILL I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn. JULIETTE BINOCHE VLADIMIR HOROWITZ DONALD TRUMP ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL GAELIC PROVERB The museum would have one foot in the past and one foot in the present. GORDON HUETHER Being clingy may work for puppies, but not for you. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE MANDY HALE THOMAS S. MONSON THICH NHAT HANH Now is everythingKAREN HACKEL KATE CHOPIN SOLANGE NICOLE ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH CASSANDRA CLARE BIL KEANE THEODORE ROOSEVELT MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want... ALEX RODRIGUEZ FREDERICK DOUGLAS We forgot about that a long time ago. The past is gone. We're more excited about the present and we ... BRANDON HEATH JOHN JAY CHAPMAN Shallow men speak of the past; wise men of the present and fools of the future MADAME MARIE DU DEFFAND The past, the present, the future: migration is what matters. GUILLERMO ALONSO Think there is nothing we can do to change the past, so we have to look at the present to make sure ... HEINZ FISCHER The basic (theme) is the past catching up with the present, ... It's how the actions of one affects ... HOWARD WILSON There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present LILIAN EICHLER WATSON TONY CAMPOLO JOAN RIVERS BLAISE PASCAL HENRY DAVID THOREAU OSCAR WILDE EMMET FOX The times are not so bad as they seem; they couldn't be JAY FRANKLIN TONY CAMPOLO RENEE AHDIEH RENEE AHDIEH RENEE AHDIEH RENEE AHDIEH RENEE AHDIEH MARGARET ATWOOD PAMELA ANDERSON AMBROSE BIERCE We have to live in the present. I was very focused and I knew what I had to do to beat him. At the m... TOMMY ROBREDO The team is really focused and they are expecting a lot inthe present, ... But asalways, you just ne... BOB HAMMOND RENEE AHDIEH JACK KORNFIELD THICH NHAT HANH This -- this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's vo... LOUIS L'AMOUR JOHN STEINBECK DEBASISH MRIDHA Honesty,moral standards ,and principles all partner up with truth be the best you can be. In this wo... GARY F EVANS... LOUIS L'AMOUR HARUKI MURAKAMI WALT DISNEY COMPANY When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me... GARY F EVANS... L.J. SMITH MONTY PYTHON CANDACE BUSHNELL Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future... MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO MANDY HALE The truth is, it's really only okay to be yourself if that self is within an accepted range of 'norm... STACEY KADE One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is... R.J. GONZALES RICK RIORDAN PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP ERNEST HEMINGWAY JAMES THURBER He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future QUEVEDO
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The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and... 
The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future. 
I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... 
It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is... 
Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... 
My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory... 
Most of your reactions are echoes from the past. You do not really live in the present. 
Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what t... 
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of ... 
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.... 
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. 
Those were her best days, although there was always something feckless about her, something so slack... 
The past is behind, learn from it.The future is ahead, prepare for it.The present is here, live it. 
He who knows the past well can best explain the present and can tell the probable certainties and un... 
Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. 
Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past...... 
When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like ... 
Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold. 
The 20th century has been a century of bloodshed. The present century, because of our past experienc... 
Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To Geo... 
My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future. 
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That... 
The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future 
When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. 
The past is behind, learn from it.
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if w... 
The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a myste... 
Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when... 
The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... 
If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. The love, the hea... 
Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present... 
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past 
What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past an... 
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the fu... 
The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost. 
Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your fut... 
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present. 
The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thu... 
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fool... 
These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing. 
The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by th... 
It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to h... 
Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different tim... 
I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about ... 
DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has dee... 
When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter what... 
A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatn... 
Live in the moment. Don’t carry baggage from the past. Put that baggage in a history book and lear... 
A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind. 
No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves... 
Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things 
I love you." she whispered into the rough wool of his sweater. 
And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,... 
I make mistakes. That's what I do. I 
To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... 
Percy was getting tired of water.
The young gentlemen who came calling seemed especially puzzling. They sat in their velvet shirts and... 
Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is ... 
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is an... 
Wit is the only wall between us and the dark. 
To be what no one ever was,To be what everyone has been:Freedom is the mean of thoseExtremes that fe... 
To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that... 
Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to. 
A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. 
The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted . . . . Some have settled down to f... 
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught n... 
I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything ... 
When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the dist... 
If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit... 
Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the pur... 
Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the p... 
One must work and dare if one really wants to live. 
I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say. 
I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac... 
If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes an... 
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authori... 
If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad j... 
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. 
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.