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When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

— Dian Fossey

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

— Sai Baba

As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no return; how necessary, then, that you spend it in improving your mind and fitting it for future happiness and usefulness.

— Dorothea Dix

Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.

— Petra Nemcova

Too many people dwell on the past: the thing is to get on with life.

— Zarin Mehta

To transcend limitations and form positive new patterns of life based on who you know you can be rather than who you were yesterday, you must give up the modes of thinking, feeling and behaving that only keep you chained to your past.

— Debbie Ford

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

— Buddha

Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.

— Hugh Hefner

✗Opposing Perspectives

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

— Jules Verne

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

— Dian Fossey

Think about it: No matter who you are, the past plays a large part in your life. I am all about living in the present as best as I can. Try as I might, there is only so much I am able to achieve on this front.

— Henry Rollins