Life is understood backwards, but must be lived forwards.

Don't bother fighting the old; just build the new.

You can't start a new chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one. The past may be a nice place to visit but certainly not a good place to stay. Let go of your past failures. They are meant to guide you, not to define you or determine your future. Don't be a prisoner of your past, it was just a lesson not a life sentence.

The people who struggle most are the ones who can't accept the incessant unfairness of life. They become so consumed with what should have happened, the way other people should have behaved that they become incapable of dealing with reality.

Who you are becoming is more important than who you have been.

The past is entirely contained in your head. It is nowhere else. The present is all that exists and that is where you exist.

Changing your interpretation of your past is often just as good as changing your past.

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.

Your past does not equal your future unless you live there.

What's done is done. What's gone is gone. One of life's lessons is always moving on.

The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

Your history is not your destiny.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

What is past is prologue.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

Your past is just a story. And once you realize this, it has no power over you.

The past beats inside me like a second heart.