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Past/Future

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

-- Anonymous

We do not remember days; we remember moments.

-- Anonymous

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

-- Roger Babson

Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.

-- Byrd Baggett

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

-- Margaret Fairless Barber

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

-- Paul Boese

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

-- Winston Churchill

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

-- Albert Einstein

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

-- Albert Einstein

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

-- George Orwell

Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.

-- John Randolph

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

-- Charles Schultz

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.

-- Virginia Woolf

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

-- François de La Rouchefoucauld