“Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change.”— Colleen Hoover, amazon.com
“You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.”— Ann Brashares, amazon.com
“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it's a regret, maybe it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it.”— Pittacus Lore, amazon.com
“It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something? It's only with hindsight we can see things for what they are.”— S. J. Watson, amazon.com
“We do not get to choose how we start out in life. We do not get to choose the day we are born or the family we are born into, what we are named at birth, what country we are born in, and we do not get to choose our ancestry. All these things are predetermined by a higher power. By the time you are o…”— Idowu Koyenikan, amazon.com
“We are the product of our past. We start each day where we left off the day before. Changing the way we dress, where we work and live, or even changing a name does not alter our basic constitution. Transformation of the self requires a radical alteration in the way that we perceive the world and der…”— Kilroy J. Oldster, amazon.com
“Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might-have-beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone? If we can't embrace uncertainty do we miss the point of love?”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com
“It is important that we know where we come from, because if you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“One day you’re seventeen and planning for someday. And then quietly and without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And that someday is yesterday. And this is your life.”— Mark Schwahn, Nathan Scott, James Lafferty, imdb.com
“A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com