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• Invent a past for the present. ~Daniel Stern
  
  
• We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. ~Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
  
  
• 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
  
  

• 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? ~From the 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"
  
  

• ...and as I often ask, "Do you drive your car by steering the rearview mirror, or by putting your hands on the steering wheel and going forward?" ~ Ken Donaldson