We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Charles R. Swindoll
The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so.
Blaise Pascal
When you live with another person for 50 years, all of your memories are invested in that person, like a bank account of shared memories. It’s not that you refer to them constantly. In fact, for people who do not live in the past, you almost never say, ...
Federico Fellini
The future hasn`t happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I`m in.
Annie Lennox
If it seems like I`ve been lost in `lets remember`, If it seems I`m gettin` older and missin` my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
Billy Joel
I`ve never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don`t understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
Sophia Loren