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I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'

— Samantha Bond

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

— Corrie Ten Boom

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

— Chuck Palahniuk

As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future... A lot of it is a new awareness of time and life and the wheel of fortune crushing you and lifting you and crushing you and lifting you.

— Feist

One faces the future with one's past.

— Pearl S. Buck

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

When my mom turned 91, I wanted to use the time that we have left in our lives to get to know each other as adults.

— Anderson Cooper

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

— Taylor Caldwell

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

— Bil Keane

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