Past
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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.
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.
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.
Life is divided into three terms — that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.
In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
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