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The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other peopl...

Charles R. Swindoll

If more people understood how nice it is to have a sense of home that extends past our locked doors, past our neighbors' padlocks, to the local food co-op and library, the sidewalks busted up by old trees - if we all held home with longer arms - we'd...

Dee Williams

Celine: The past is the past. It was meant to be that way. Jesse: What, you really believe that? That everything's fated? Celine: Well, you know, the world might be less free than we think. Jesse: Yeah? Celine: Yeah, when given these exact circumstan...

Before Sunset

(A) trip to the attic is an excursion into history, and...all over the world the present unravels beneath the stored detritus of the past; that's what attics are for.

The Confessions of Edward Day

There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.

Choke

The terror takes you. The cage is locked and the curtain drawn. Fingers dance along as blades, carving memories into your flesh that will leave scars long past being healed.

The Cliff

I don't want you to have to handle it. That's the horror of my past. But you...you're the reality of my present. You're the proof I survived. The prize in the cereal box.

Complete Me

Sports can unite worlds, tear down walls and transcend race, the past, and all probability. Unlike life, sport matters.

Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew

My parents...were people running from the past, who didn't look back at much if they could help it, and whose whole life always lay somewhere in the offing.

Canada

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One

I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead a hundred times over these past five years.

Clockwork Prince

If you see an old man talking to himself, he might not be a fool or crazy. He might be sharing a conversation with the past, warmed by a memory he need not reveal.

Celebrate the Sinner

Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.

Detour de France: An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad.

Dreams of Gods & Monsters

I wasn't scared of losing my past. i was scared of losing my future.

The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now

But really, why should you distress yourself? Whoever stirs up the past — out with his eye! Who is not a sinner before God and to blame before the Tsar, as the saying is?

The Devil

Ludlow put a hand on his arm. "A friend of mine used to say, 'You cannot change the past, but every moment is an opportunity to change your future.

The Eyeball Collector

The Unexpected Gift Torn asunder from her slumber in the hour of half past three The child knew the tyrannical regime and followed instinctively. -(slice from Enigmatic Evolution)

Enigmatic Evolution

The fight wasn’t over,” I said through gritted teeth. “I’d have won it.” Probably. “Right,” he said. “And something just flew past your window. It was oinking.

Elysian Fields

I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

Ender's Game