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By relinquishing your obsession with the past and your fantasies about the future, you can tap into the power of the present and feel the force of love that resides inside of you.

— Debbie Ford

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Buddha

Find the beliefs that are strangling your feelings, challenge them for your sake as well as theirs, and see how it feels to love someone without a thought about the future, simply for who they are today.

— Andrew J. Bernstein

You can't dwell in your past but move forward, look forward. That's it.

— Caroline Wozniacki

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

— Petra Nemcova

We're all struggling to get out of the past. We see something that reminds us of something, and then we bring our baggage into the present. Then we project it onto people constantly.

— Sophie B. Hawkins

Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.

— Boris Kodjoe

Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

— Eckhart Tolle

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

— Les Brown

✗Opposing Perspectives

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

— Denis Waitley

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow