Blind Future

“If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.”
--A.R. Bernard

Elements of Suffering

“Two elements must therefore be rooted out once for all; the fear of future suffering, and the recollection of past suffering; since the latter no longer concerns me, and the former concerns me not yet.”
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Demagogic Hustle

“The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a demagogic hustle, promoting the mindless racism they once fought against.”
--Thomas Sowell

Fear of Death

“The fear of death, the desire to survive at any cost or price in human degradation, has been the greatest ally of tyranny, past and present.”
--Sidney Hook

Restart

“No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.”
--Buddha

Voices from the Past

“When we stop listening to the voices from the past, when we plug our ears against their advice and their injunctions, we make ourselves children, lost boys and girls without a map or compass.”
--Jeff Minick

Permeated with Hypocrisy

“Life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies. Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics.”
--Václav Havel

Forget Everything

“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.”
--William Durant

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Replacing History

“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
--Thomas Sowell

Erase the Past

“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.” --Golda Meir

Destiny is Internal

“No matter who you are, no matter what you aspire to, no matter what you have attempted in the past, the way you feel about yourself now will determine the outcome of anything that you do.”
--Ray Shapley, Sr.

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Anxious and Short

“Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.”
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Present Reflections

“Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
--Charles Dickens

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Fear's Uncertainty

“Fear is caused by the uncertainty of the future. Sorrow is caused by the remembrance of the past. Try to keep your thoughts in the present, for the future we will never know and the past we may never understand.”
--Jeffrey Fry

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To Be victorious

“To win, to be victorious, requires us to let go of every definition we have ever had of ourselves or which were imposed upon us by our view of our past.”
--Ivan Hoffman

Past, Present, Future

“Accept your past without regret, handle your present with confidence and face your future without fear.”
--Lolly Daskal

Tree Without Roots

“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”
--Marcus Garvey

Pine for the Past

“They who pine for the past, fear the future.”
--Edward Irving Wortis

Present Joy

“You will never experience joy in the present if you let yourself be misled by your past.”
--Unknown

Remember the Past

“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
--George Santayana