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Past, present and future: inspirational quotesSome people, such as myself have problems letting go of the past. However it is imperative for both your sanity, and the sanctity of your child that you are able to get rid of the past that hinders your life. As a new parent, there are many things to look forward to in life; from the simplest mundane tasks of feeding to diaper, all the way to the hopes of shopping for the beautiful new dress for your little goth in training. As I like to think of it as; cleaning the skeletons from your closet that may stop you from filling yourself up with the warmth, and never ending unconditional love that you provide for your child, and will receive back from your child. Below I have compiled a few of the most inspirational quotes I have found to date on past, present, and the future that you can look forward to. Once you have read these articles, remember to stop by the store and shop around a bit; you never know when you are going to find that must have band logo tee or one piece for your future rock star. If you are not yet blessed with your little one, why not find some edgy maternity clothes; that will help you keep your sense of self intact during this time of bodily change.
Sifting through the Past to make way for your future: * A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. - Andre Maurois * Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird. - Paul Eldridge * The past is not a package one can lay away. - Emily Dickinson * The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it, we can always feel it.- Mignon McLaughlin in “ The Neurotic’s Notebook” of nineteen sixty * The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there. - Lesley P Hartley “The Go Between” nineteen fifty three * The one charm of the past is that it is the past. - Oscar Wilde “ The Picture of Dorian Gray” * The past lies upon the present like a giant’s dead body. - Nataniel Hawthorne “ The House of Seven Gables” * Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of book known to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title. - Virginia Woolf * One cannot and must not try to erase the past, merely because it does not fit the present. - Golda Meir * God has no power over the past, except to cover it with oblivion. - Pliny the Elder * I was so in the present moment the past was no longer part of me. - Laurel Hoodwrit * We need not destroy the past, it is gone. - John Cage * What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new, right now. - Unknown Author *With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now. -Ralph Waldo Emerson * One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. -Michael Cibenko * Don't let the past steal your present. - Cherralea Morgen * There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday. - Robert Nathan “So Love Returns” * You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. - Jan Glidewell * Would you keep a chive on your tooth just because you enjoyed last night's potato? - television show Boston Common * I have memories, but only a fool stores his past in the future. - David Gerrold *I can't wait all my life On a street of broken dreams. - Journey "It Could Have Been You" *No man is rich enough to buy back his past. ~Oscar Wilde * It's but little good you'll do a watering the last year's crops. ~George Eliot and Adam Bede eighteen fifty nine *We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time. - Art Buchwald * If you are still talking about what you did yesterday, you haven't done much today. - Unknown Author * Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. - Cherokee Indian Proverb * The past is a good place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. - Unknown Author * Living the past is a dull and lonely business, looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. - Edna Ferber * I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. ~Carl Sandburg, "Prairie” nineteen fifty nine * The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess. - Chris Cobbs * Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. - Euripides “Alexander” * The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post. - L Thomas Holdcroft * We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go. ~Guillaume Apollinaire “The Cubist Painters” nineteen thirteen * The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before. - Herman Melville “White Jacket” * No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today. - Brendan Francis * People are always asking about the good old days. I say, why don't you say the good now days? - Robert M Young * Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace. - Unknown Author * "Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better. - George E Woodberry * Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone. - Jerome K Jerome “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow” eighteen eighty nine * When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. -Alexander Graham Bell * You have to wake up a virgin each morning. - Jean Louis Barrault * We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it. - John Newton * If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today. - Unknown Author * Nothing is worth more than this day. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe * Today is the greatest, Day I've ever known Can't live for tomorrow, Tomorrow's much too long. - Billy Corgan "Today" “Siamese Dream Smashing Pumpkins” nineteen ninety three * The living moment is everything. - D H Lawrence * Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts. - Jean Cocteau “Professional Secrets” nineteen twenty two * We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow. - Fulton Oursler * Chasing the past, I stumbled into the future. - T A Sachs * Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. - André Gide “Nourritures Terrestres” * In today already walks tomorrow. - Friedrich von Schiller * When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past. - Unknown Author * The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. - Abraham Maslow * The future is always beginning now. - Mark Strand “Reasons for Moving” * I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. - Albert Einstein * Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. - Leo Buscaglia * The future is no place to place your better days. - Dave Matthews * The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. - Jim Bishop * If a man examine carefully his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. - Emerson “Journals” eighteen twenty seven * I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. - D H Lawrence * One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. - Dale Carnegie * Pile up too many tomorrows and you'll find that you've collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. - ”The Music Man” * We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's. - Henry Ward Beecher * God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. - - Isak Dinesen * Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. - Euripides * Life's a journey, not a destination. - Aerosmith * If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. - Senegalese Proverb * The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. - Abraham Lincoln * The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you. - Tennessee Williams “Orpheus Descending” nineteen fifty seven * Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. - Ruth Benedict * I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate. - Arthur Wing Pinero “The Second Mrs. Tanqueray” eighteen ninety three * We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. - Charles F Kettering * I never think of the future, it comes soon enough. - Albert Einstein * The past can't see you, but the future is listening. - Destin Figuier * And in today already walks tomorrow. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge * The future is always beginning now. - Mark Strand “Reasons for Moving” * A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. - Eric Hoffer * The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. - John Sladek * The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. - Paul Valery * You can never plan the future by the past. - Edmund Burke "Letter to a Member of the National Assembly" * I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future. - Unknown Author * The course of life is unpredictable... no one can write his autobiography in advance. - Abraham Joshua Heschel * The future is an opaque mirror. 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