"What is past is past. You can..." - Quote by Og Mandino
What is past is past. You can do nothing about yesterday and last month and the failures of last year, but you can do everything toward making tomorrow and the rest of your life what you always dreamed it could be.
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“Realize how good you really are.”
“I will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.My reasoning they may counter; my speech they may distrust; my apparel they may disapprove; my face they may reject; and even my bargains may cause them suspicion; yet my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest clay.I will greet this day with love in my heart.”
“Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.”
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“History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
“I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”
“Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.”
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“I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.”
“There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”