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Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised.
Sep 10, 2025
Things change, people change, but that doesn't mean you should forget the past.
Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.
How did I end up right here wit you after all the things that I been through. It's been one of those days you try and forget about take a shot and let it out.
Im such a work in progress at the moment, its crazy, and life wants me on edge, I swear to you. But as long as I dont forget the past, Im cool. One must always be mindful, just like you might forget that old girlfriend who tried to slit your throat, but shes really still hot. If you remember the stitches more than you remember the pussy, youre going to be just fine.
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.
He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it.
Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself.
The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.
She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer. Because tonight Oliver wasn't that man. Not to her. He was the boy who'd cried over his dead mother, the young man who'd lost himself in drink and women to forget the past, the marquess who'd vowed not to marry for money. He was the man to be her lover.
There are different ways to be confused about how someone's disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it will give you both a future.
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.
There's no room for anything else. You forget that you're tired or cold or hungry. You forget that banged-up knee and your aching tooth. You forget the past, and you forget that there's such a thing as a future.
People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.
The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Once we have forgiven, however, we get a new freedom to forget. This time forgetting is a sign of health; it is not a trick to avoid spiritual surgery. We can forget because we have been healed. But even if it is easier to forget after we forgive, we should not make forgetting a test of our forgiving. The test of forgiving lies with healing the lingering pain of the past, not with forgetting the past has ever happened.
The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.
Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.
Every life has a purpose. We need to let go of the past. Live in the present. Do not waste today worrying about what will happen tomorrow. Embrace your true spirit, embrace and listen to grace and you be transformed in the moment. Do not fixate on what you want but give thanks for what you have.
Don't stumble over something behind you.
If you want to be financially-free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past.
But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.
A world of "if"s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time... but I couldn't. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future.
If possible, forget the past. Look forward to the future.
The past does not equal the future.
Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.
Though the past haunt me as a spirit, I do not ask to forget.
The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.
Museums have traditionally been places that protect the art object. But in the last 40 years, a new type of museum has emerged - the Kunsthalle or alternative space which only presents temporary, contemporary shows. Yet art is not just about the future - it is about the future and the present, but it also can't forget the past.
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
STOP looking back!!!! When your past calls do NOT pick up!! it has nothing new to say.
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
If you care to be a master or to make a true success of your profession, the smallest detail of your work must be done with thoroughness. To be thorough in medicine means that in the ever alluring present, we do not forget the past.
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
People will never forget how you made them feel.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
He who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.