You can't master your future if you're still a slave to your past.

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Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.

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Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. ― Rumi

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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes. ― Denis Waitley

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The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

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When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love… — Marcus Aurelius

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. ― Colin Powell

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The ethereal past had blinded him, and the highest happiness he could dream was a return to it. ― E.M. Forster

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Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge. ― Rumi

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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

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