The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.
I have to change. It's like a curse.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.
If you keep always doing what you've always done, you get the same results.
Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened.
Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else.