"If you live in the past and..." - Quote by Oprah Winfrey
If you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are, then you never grow.
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“The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”
“The shadow by my finger cast Divides the future from the past: Before it, sleeps the unborn hour, In darkness, and beyond thy power. Behind its unreturning line, The vanished hour, no longer thine: One hour alone is in thy hands,- The NOW on which the shadow stands.”
“The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.”