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(verb) To change place.

75 QUOTES
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
— Mark Twain
"Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well."
— Dalai Lama
"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."
— James Baldwin
"What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
— Helen Keller
"You always have an opportunity to see the past for what it is, and live freely in today."
— Caylor Parish
"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."
— Mother Teresa
"Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again."
— Gautama Buddha
"The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing."
— John Muir
"Heal the past by living fully in the present moment."
— Abel Starc
"Change is inevitable, change is always happening, nothing stays the same, not even yesterday was like today."
— Abel Starc
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
— George Bernard Shaw
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
— Gautama Buddha
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