"The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them."

Past, Present

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"The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them."

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"The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

Past,

"The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either."

Mick Jagger, English Musician

Past, Regret, Want

"The past is a shadow; the present is real."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

Past, Mindfulness

"Drop the past. The past is no more, and the future is not yet."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

Past, Mindfulness

"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters that you have read."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

Past, Letting Go

"Your past does not define you, your present does."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

Past, Transformation

"The past is magnetic. It draws us in."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Past, Memory, Attraction, Reflection

"The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image."

Doris Kearns Goodwin, American Historian

Past, Self

"The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations."

Henry Villard, American Journalist

Past,

"Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster."

Joe Adcock, American Athlete

Past, Trying

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"The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them."

Travel

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."

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"Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature."

Nature

"Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt."

Hurt

"Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements."

Democracy

"Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals."

Humor

"The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth."

Rights

"A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there."

Nothing

"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding."

Humor

"It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more."

Friendship