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It's just hard to see people from your past when your present is so cataclysmically fucked.


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It is a fight to let go of a past that refuses to withdraw its sticky tentacles from your present.
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JONATHAN TROPPER Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your fu...
TONY CAMPOLO Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your fut...
TONY CAMPOLO When the devil pays you back your fucked and when your fucked your a dead man walking.
BILLY S VANORSDOL Present, rather than past, is the mother of future. So, your future must take after your present. Bu...
RAHEEL FAROOQ Your dream is a reality that is waiting for you to materialize. Today is a new day! Don’t let your...
STEVE MARABOLI Lift up your eyes from your books, from your past, from your hurts and look upon all people with lov...
DRAGOS BRATASANU This happens all the time. It's nice to see people from your past.
FERN STAPLETON Don't let your past pollute your present and disable you from progressing in the future.
MADDY MALHOTRA Can one ever let go of the past when the future becomes the present and the present becomes your pas...
TERESA MORGAN The past is your teacher. The present is your opportunity. The future is your reward.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Marry your future, court your present; divorce your past.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Your future must be better than your past, and your present. If it is not so then you did not sow a ...
WISDOM ATTAH ELORM Make peace with your past so you don't mess up the present!
MARCIA CASAR FRIEDMAN Remember and Study your Past to Succeed and Nourish your Present
MINA TADROS Its so hard to let go of your past but we can always go back in time thanks to our great memory
PATTY MEDINA You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the pr...
JAN GLIDWELL You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the pr...
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JOHN KUYPERS Its time let go of the past and embrace all that awaits you.Make your present moment most precious.V...
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JORDAN LEE TYO Every decision you make today is based on what you have learned from your past and your present atti...
LORRIN L. LEE Your accomplishments in the past and present has a link to your future success.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying abo...
ROY T. BENNETT Without mindful awareness, the shadows of your past may haunt your present.
REUBEN LOWE Remember your past ,dream for your future but live in the present.
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MARCEL PAGNOL The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, t...
MARCEL PAGNOL If you look to your past or even your present to see why you are here or what your purpose is, you m...
DEBBIE FORD You are better than your past, greater than your present, and brighter than your future.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and a...
SAI BABA You can't change the past, so use your present time you got wisely to avoid regretting in future.
SHUBHAM CHAVAN Your past doesn't actually exist. What you think is your past is a tiny blip of electricity in your ...
DAN PEARCE Most of your reactions are echoes from the past. You do not really live in the present.
GAELIC PROVERB its so hard to keep a straight face and put up a smile , when you know your going through so much.
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ROZONDA THOMAS Don't let the darkness of your past block the light of joy in your present. What happened is done. S...
KAREN SALMANSOHN Most of your reactions are echoes from the past.
You do not really live in the present.
GAELIC PROVERB I think it is incredible just to see so many people there shouting your name and waving,
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UNKNOWN When you can see without your eyes, you will then see past the disguise.
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS Bring 'only' good memories from the past to your present and that will bring you all the happiness,n...
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RICKY MAYE Your past, is your past, it has come and gone so stop worrying about it
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BO BENNETT So when your (new) eyes meet mine they won't see no lies, just love...
CONOR OBERST Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future...
W.H. AUDEN Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now...
OPRAH WINFREY It's hard to lose when your standards are so low.
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ELIZABETH JANE HOWARD When I meet you, in that moment, I am no longer a part of your future. I start quickly becoming part...
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VIKRMN It's hard to act with just your jaw.
JOEL KINNAMAN Create your future from your future not your past.
WERNER ERHARD Create your future from your future not your past.
WERNER ERHARDT Create your future from your future not your past.
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Who matters,
Who never did,
Who wo...
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The sport is just so captivating. It's so hard to master the sport and when you are playing it takes...
JULIO ARELLANO Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I’ve heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. B...
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA its so hurting when people lie to your face and says "hey i am not mean" , infact everybody is mean ...
MUZAFFAR ABBAS This is beginning of a new day. Make the given moment of worth utility & make it beautiful with your...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA To live in the past you end up losing your present and forgetting about a future
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
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JULIAN MCMAHON Its marvelous what you can see when you open your eyes.
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SOURCE UNKNOWN What makes somebody nice or unpleasant to be around is the way they communicate. When people are fuc...
RYū MURAKAMI Try to learn from the past when is still present. Future seems often not obey the same laws.
MARIANA FULGER Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future...
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ADNAN BAHATTI Jonathan has cut and blow-dried his way into popular culture and our viewers have embraced his journ...
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Whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through e...
JONATHAN SWIFT We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.
JONATHAN WESTOVER I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations,
JONATHAN KOZOL What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
JONATHAN SWIFT I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
JONATHAN SWIFT One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFT When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in ...
JONATHAN SWIFT 'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men...
JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
JONATHAN SWIFT One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of t...
JONATHAN RABAN I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contrib...
JONATHAN SWIFT It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: a...
JONATHAN SWIFT Come, agree, the law's costly.
JONATHAN SWIFT There's none so blind as they that won't see.
JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; wh...
JONATHAN SWIFT Brutes find out where their talents lie;
A bear will not attempt to fly,
A foundered horse w...
JONATHAN SWIFT Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserte...
JONATHAN RABAN But when a Man
JONATHAN SWIFT Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
JONATHAN SWIFT There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external r...
JONATHAN EDWARDS Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroe's knickers or Laurence Olivier's jockstr...
JONATHAN MILLER Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
JONATHAN EDWARDS I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words ...
JONATHAN SWIFT Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
JONATHAN SWIFT Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth,...
JONATHAN SWIFT I wont quarrel with my bread and butter.
JONATHAN SWIFT I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
JONATHAN SWIFT It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.
JONATHAN GASH Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT