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Love And The Past Quotes About Moving On From Past Love

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Dale Carnegie

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.
Roy T. Bennett

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs

The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Love And The Past Quotes About Cherishing Memories Of Past Love

The past beats inside me like a second heart.
John Banville

The best thing about memories is making them.
Unknown

The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The past is never where you think you left it.
Katherine Anne Porter

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope.
Stephen Ambrose

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
Bill Cosby

The past is a place of learning, not a place of living.
Roy T. Bennett

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.
Roy T. Bennett

The past is a good place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
Unknown

Love And The Past Quotes About Comparing Present Love To Past Love

Comparing your present love to your past love is like comparing a rose to a daisy. They are both beautiful, but in different ways.
Unknown

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence. Don't compare your present love to your past love, or you'll never be able to move forward.
Unknown

Comparing your present love to your past love is like comparing a sunset to a sunrise. They are both beautiful, but in different ways.
Unknown

Don't compare your present love to your past love. Your past love is a memory, and your present love is a reality.
Unknown

Comparing your present love to your past love is like comparing a diamond to a pearl. They are both precious, but in different ways.
Unknown

Don't compare your present love to your past love. Your past love is a chapter in your life, and your present love is the next chapter.
Unknown

Comparing your present love to your past love is like comparing a mountain to a beach. They are both beautiful, but in different ways.
Unknown

Don't compare your present love to your past love. Your past love is a lesson, and your present love is a blessing.
Unknown

Comparing your love to someone else's is a recipe for disaster. Love is unique, and comparing it will only make you feel inadequate.
Unknown

Don't compare your present love to your past love. Each love is unique and special in its own way.
Unknown

Love And The Past Quotes About Nostalgia For Past Love

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
Doug Larson

Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.
Terrence Malick

Nostalgia is a way for us to tap into the past experiences that we have and extract value from them.
Sonja Lyubomirsky

The past is always tense, the future perfect.
Zadie Smith

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
George Ball

Love And The Past Quotes About Overcoming Heartbreak From Past Love

The best way to get over a woman is to turn her into literature.
Henry Miller

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs

The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.
Mary Kay Andrews

The best way to forget the past is to look forward to the future.
Unknown

The best way to get over someone is to get under someone else.
Unknown

The best way to get over a broken heart is to find someone new to love you, but don't forget the lessons learned.
Unknown

The best way to get over someone is to realize that you never needed them in the first place.
Unknown

The best way to get over someone is to focus on yourself and your own happiness.
Unknown

Love And The Past Quotes About Holding Onto Past Love

The past is a place of memories, but it is not a place to live.
Unknown

The past is a place of knowledge, but it is not a place to live.
Unknown

The past is a place of reflection, but it is not a place to dwell.
Unknown

Love And The Past Quotes About Finding Closure From Past Love

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery

The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.
Oscar Wilde

Love And The Past Quotes About Lessons Learned From Past Love

The greatest lesson I have learned about love is that it is not enough to just love someone. You have to choose to love them every day.
Anonymous

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; it is a place of learning, not a place of living.
Roy T. Bennett

The only way to learn strong lessons in love is to go through it and get burned. Then you realize how much it hurts and how much you don't want it to hurt again.
Lauren Conrad

The greatest lesson I have learned about love is that it is not about possession, it is about appreciation.
Anonymous

The past is a great teacher. If you listen to it, you can avoid repeating the same mistakes twice.
Anonymous

The greatest lesson I have learned about love is that it is not about finding someone who completes you, but finding someone who accepts you completely.
Anonymous

The past is a place of learning, not a place of regret.
Anonymous

The greatest lesson I have learned about love is that it is not about finding someone who is perfect, but finding someone who is perfect for you.
Anonymous

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence. You can visit, but you can't live there.
Anonymous

The greatest lesson I have learned about love is that it is not about changing someone, but accepting them for who they are.
Anonymous

Love And The Past Quotes About Letting Go Of Past Love

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Lao Tzu

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

Love And The Past Quotes About Rekindling Past Love

The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that's that.
Woody Allen

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.
Nicholas Sparks

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Osho

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

Love is not about how many days, weeks or months you've been together, it's all about how much you love each other every day.
Unknown

Love is not about finding the right person, but creating a right relationship. It's not about how much love you have in the beginning but how much love you build till the end.
Jumar

The best way to love is to love like you have never been hurt.
Unknown

Love And The Past Quotes About Regretting Past Love

The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.
William Faulkner

Love is never wrong.
Melissa Etheridge

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.
Barbara De Angelis

Love And The Past Quotes About Forgiving Past Love

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt

Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Dag Hammarskjold

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Josh McDowell

Forgiveness is the only way to heal.
Caroline Myss

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.
Corrie ten Boom

Love And The Past Quotes About Wishing To Relive Past Love

I wish I could turn back the clock. I'd find you sooner and love you longer.
Unknown

I wish I could go back to the day I met you and just walk away. Because honestly, it would've saved me so much hurt and pain.
Unknown

I wish I could turn back time and find you sooner so I could love you longer.
Unknown

I wish I could go back to the day I met you and kiss my old life goodbye.
Unknown

I wish I could turn back the clock and find you sooner so I could love you longer.
Unknown

Love And The Past Quotes About Accepting The End Of Past Love

The only way to get over the past is to leave it behind; accept it for what it is and move on.
Jay M. Shetty

The past is a place of memories, not a place of residence.
Lorna Seilstad

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