All NICHOLAS SPARKS Quotes about “Past”

“People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past.”
“Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.”
“If itâ€™s over, then donâ€™t let the past screw up the rest of your life.”
“The past can be escaped only by embracing something better.”
“What happens in the past, is in the past. But don't be surprised if it comes back and haunts you.”
“because the past was always around her and might return at any time. It prowled the world searching for her, and she knew it was growing angrier at every passing day.”
“There was no pretention here, no hidden meanings in the phrases they spoke, no elaborate plans designed to impress the other. Though it had always been easy to spend time with Mike, she suddenly realized that in the whirlwind of the past couple of weeks, she'd almost forgot how much she enjoyed it.”
“Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable.”
“That was the dirty secret associated with her past. Not that she'd been abused but that somehow she felt that she deserved it because she'd let it happen. Even now, it shamed her, and there were times when she felt hideously ugly, as though the scars that had been left behind were visible to everyone.”
“Throughout it all, I loved her as much as I always had, and I found myself aching for those simpler times of the past. I knew what was happening, of course. As we were drifting apart, I was becoming more desperate to save what we once had shared; like a vicious circle, however, my desperation made us drift apart even further.”
“I know I can't change the past, but I change the future. I can change, too. And I will.”
“The general rule is that my life is focused on the present, and very little on the past. If anything, I'm a little bit more focused toward the future.”

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