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![Brandon Taylor](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1665076623i/19531469._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“You have to let it go if you're going to keep moving, if you're going to survive, because the past doesn't need a future. It has no use for what comes next. The past is greedy, always swallowing you up, always taking. If you don't hold it back, if you don't dam it up, it will spread and take and drown.
The past is not a receding horizon. Rather, it advances one moment at a time, marching steadily forward until it has claimed everything and we become again who we were; we become ghosts when the past catches us. I can't live as long as my past does. It's one or the other.”
― Real Life
The past is not a receding horizon. Rather, it advances one moment at a time, marching steadily forward until it has claimed everything and we become again who we were; we become ghosts when the past catches us. I can't live as long as my past does. It's one or the other.”
― Real Life
![Mouloud Benzadi](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1692105356i/7075343._UX200_CR0,54,200,200_.jpg)
“Enjoy the precious moments of the present while they
LAST .
Don't waste them overplanning the future,
or overthinking
the PAST.”
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LAST .
Don't waste them overplanning the future,
or overthinking
the PAST.”
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![Bhuwan Thapaliya](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1577967446i/14735811._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I picked up a little stone and threw it into the pond. As the ripples faded, so did my smiles. I knew I could do nothing to bring those ripples back.”
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![Melanie A. Smith](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1572828919i/18088778._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Our past is part of us. And we can let it own us or we can let it shape us.”
― Pompous Paramedic
― Pompous Paramedic
![Locke Wood](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1697132800i/22478663._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“He grits his teeth and moves forward. He doesn't know any other way. No one has taught him nothin'. He's on a continuous countdown clock with confronting his chaotic past and this time his ghosts have met him in his nightmares.”
― Sunflowers & Scorched Earth: The History of American Vigilante Expression and The Found Works of B.L. Ashburn.
― Sunflowers & Scorched Earth: The History of American Vigilante Expression and The Found Works of B.L. Ashburn.
![Alex Diaz-Granados](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1703903801i/5818198._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“My friend (and ex-lover) Nicole says I’m just a restless soul. My barhopping friend Mark thinks it’s just a premature middle-age crisis; I just celebrated my 33rd birthday last week, after all. I have another theory. It’s not original, so I can’t call it the James Garraty Theory of Life. Want to hear it? Here goes. No matter how old you get, how affluent or successful you become, you’ll never outrun the ghosts of your past. Particularly the ghosts of your adolescence. Put simply, you can graduate from high school, but your soul will never leave that place.”
― Reunion: A Story: A Novella
― Reunion: A Story: A Novella
![Artnoob 100](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1685714702i/33309173._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“The past always finds a way to catch up with us. Remember that.”
― Till Our Worlds Collide Vol. 1: (Light Novel)
― Till Our Worlds Collide Vol. 1: (Light Novel)
“You need to live in the present and not fantasize about the past you can't bring back to life.”
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![Benjamin P. Hardy](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1531474861i/8536331._UY200_CR100,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Having a positive past depends very little on what events actually occurred.
What happened to you doesn’t matter as much as what story you decide to tell yourself about what happened.
What happened to you doesn’t matter as much as what emotions you feel about what happened.
We get to choose what story we attach.
Grief expert and psychiatrist Gordon Livingston, M.D., said, “The stories of our lives, far from being fixed narratives, are under constant revision.
Psychologically, the past, present, and future exist together here and now. Our present state is largely what determines those critical past narratives.
With deliberate practice, you can develop the skill of positively reframing any past experience into a gain. With practice, you can get better and quicker at converting pain into growth and purpose. This is what psychologists call post-traumatic growth.
Can you feel genuinely glad you went through your hardest moments?
Without those, you wouldn’t know what you now know or be who you are.”
― Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation
What happened to you doesn’t matter as much as what story you decide to tell yourself about what happened.
What happened to you doesn’t matter as much as what emotions you feel about what happened.
We get to choose what story we attach.
Grief expert and psychiatrist Gordon Livingston, M.D., said, “The stories of our lives, far from being fixed narratives, are under constant revision.
Psychologically, the past, present, and future exist together here and now. Our present state is largely what determines those critical past narratives.
With deliberate practice, you can develop the skill of positively reframing any past experience into a gain. With practice, you can get better and quicker at converting pain into growth and purpose. This is what psychologists call post-traumatic growth.
Can you feel genuinely glad you went through your hardest moments?
Without those, you wouldn’t know what you now know or be who you are.”
― Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation
![Bhuwan Thapaliya](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1577967446i/14735811._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“This is not the sound I grew up with. Not the sound I am accustomed to. I don’t want to wake up to the noise of bulldozers. Birds used to wake me up in the morning with their cherubic songs. Where are they now?”
― Our Nepal, Our Pride
― Our Nepal, Our Pride
![Carolyn Watson-Dubisch](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1706893263i/4734883._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“The ghosts from my past float behind my eyes and haunt me in my dreams.”
― After The Robots Died, Issue #2, The Eye in the Sand
― After The Robots Died, Issue #2, The Eye in the Sand
![Mehmet Murat ildan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1371463140i/3164882._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“When the future begins to run out, the journey to the past in our minds increases tremendously because there is no longer any room to go beyond, so we go back to expand our lives in a virtual way!”
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“The past is a beautiful illusion trap of sweet memories. the more you remember it the more you get trapped in it and thus your life never changes.”
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![Elelwani Anita Ravhuhali](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1640899024i/21773150._UX200_CR0,80,200,200_.jpg)
“You hold on to what has departed,
as though it comprises all of your energy.
Have you had a glimpse of your existence?
If you are one with the ocean,
which scientists have barely
even explored the opening of it,
does it occur, that perhaps your existence
is a magnitude of infinity?
You're limitless, let what has departed go.”
― The Voice Of Adequacy: Silencing Self-Doubt, Embracing Self-Love
as though it comprises all of your energy.
Have you had a glimpse of your existence?
If you are one with the ocean,
which scientists have barely
even explored the opening of it,
does it occur, that perhaps your existence
is a magnitude of infinity?
You're limitless, let what has departed go.”
― The Voice Of Adequacy: Silencing Self-Doubt, Embracing Self-Love
“Not leaving the past behind is a terrible way to move forward. Look at today and tomorrow. They can be better if you don't hold onto yesterday too tightly.”
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“A birthday is an annual reminder: embrace the past, relish the present, and envision the future.”
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![Sarah Addison Allen](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1646846141i/566874._UY200_CR9,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I can't hold on to the past and grab for the future at the same time. I have to choose. Eventually, we all have to choose.”
― Other Birds
― Other Birds
“There are indeed certain sorrows that never leave our hearts. They lie dormant, hidden beneath the surface of our skin, erupting loudly when provoked by even a single foul word.”
― The Black Shila
― The Black Shila
![Troy Hadeed](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1696843500i/43778465._UY200_CR47,0,200,200_.jpg)
“We may not have the power to change the past, but we can change how the past influences our present state of being.”
― My Name Is Love: We're Not All That Different
― My Name Is Love: We're Not All That Different
![Marion Bekoe](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1685778696i/22979961._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Your past will determine your present, your present will soon be your past but your mindset will determine your future.”
― I WILL BE A BILLIONAIRE: The right mindset is the first step towards the journey.
― I WILL BE A BILLIONAIRE: The right mindset is the first step towards the journey.
“Regrets are the ghosts of past decisions. They haunt the present with lessons unlearned and futures unlived.”
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“The entire future lies in uncertainty, but a peek at the past is a luxury I do not wish to relinquish.”
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“The past is not dead. It just lived with us for some time. It will show up in the future to give you a reward.”
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“You are the CEO of your life. Forget about what happens in the pass and move on to prepare your future.”
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