A Quote by William Burton

If you do not like the past, change it.

William Burton

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William Burton
August 24, 1575 - 1645

There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.

Terry Pratchett

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

Vanilla Ice

I am interested in the past. Perhaps one of the reasons is we cannot make, cannot change the past. I mean you can hardly unmake the present. But the past after all is merely to say a memory, a dream. You know my own past seems continually changed when I am remembering it, or reading things that are interesting to me.

Jorge Luis Borges

I know I can't change the past, but I change the future. I can change, too. And I will.

Nicholas Sparks

We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better.... or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do.... But at this precise moment, you also realize that you can change your future by bringing the past into the present. Past and future only exist in our mind. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.... It isn't what you did in the past the will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

Paulo Coelho

You can't change the past but you can change everything else. Take your first step toward making a significant change in your life, today.

Hal Elrod

There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.

Eleanor Brown

We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back from the present. That now is the creative point of life. So you see it's like the idea of forgiving somebody, you change the meaning of the past by doing that...Also, watch the flow of music. The melody as its expressed is changed by notes that come later. Just as the meaning of a sentence...you wait till later to find out what the sentence means...The present is always changing the past.

Alan Watts

All the past has done is generated the you that you are now. Dwelling on the past isn't going to change anything.

Frederick Lenz

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

Charles R. Swindoll

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

John Berger

The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.

Ann Brashares

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

Malala Yousafzai

We are often wrong about the past, but at least with the past you can change your thinking. We can't do that with the future.

Chuck Klosterman

You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.

Larry Wall

The past is the past, and I can't go back in time to change anything.

Glover Teixeira

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