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One couldn’t fix the past, only the present.

Lois McMaster Bujold, American novelist (b. 1949)

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Think of tomorrow, the past can't be mended.

Confucius, 5th-century BCE Chinese philosopher and politician

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Nothing can be done to change the past. Let's live in the moment, the future is ahead of us.

Gaétan Veillette, historian, writer and Financial planner

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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)

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We cannot change the past. We can only take action in the present and, therefore, change the future.

It's impossible to change the past or the present: you can only accept all that as it is.

There was nothing like the pain of the present to cure the pain of the past.

You know the past only in the present and as part of the present.

Alan Watts, British American author and lecturer (1915–1973)

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We cannot build the future by avenging the past.

The past cannot remember the past. The future can’t generate the future. The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

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Even God cannot change the past.

Agathon, Athenian tragic poet (c.448–c.400 BC)

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The past is nothing more than the meaning you ascribe to it. Traumatic experiences can be changed. They are not fixed.

I live in the moment. The past is the past and I can't change anything about it and the future is all in my imagination. So, therefore, the only thing I can deal with is sitting here right now …by sticking to that and being totally transparent, it kind of tells you who I am and what I'm about. And I think that for me is the essence of life. That's the one thing.

No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.

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