Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. – Edna Ferber
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. – Carl Sandburg, “Prairie,” Complete Poems, 1950
The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess. – Chris Cobbs
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. – Euripides, Alexander
The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post. – L. Thomas Holdcroft
The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife
Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace. – Author Unknown
Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone. – Jerome K. Jerome, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, 1889
You have to wake up a virgin each morning. – Jean-Louis Barrault
Stay on top of your past so you can have a better view of your future. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com
We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Quotation and Originality,” Letters and Social Aims, 1876
Nothing is worth more than this day. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The living moment is everything. – D.H. Lawrence
Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware. – ThÃch Nhất Hạnh
