Past
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A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
I'm looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.
Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.
See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your 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.
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor — no matter what you do, and how you twist it.
Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
Forget the past — the future will give you plenty to worry about.
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.
Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
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