Our Past Quotes - Page 10

• A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are. Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

  Bernard Meltzer

  True Friend, Believe, Thinking

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• For what are we but our past? If that is lost, we become nothing.

  Iain Pears

  Past, Lost, Ifs

  Iain Pears (1999). “AN Instance of the Fingerpost”, p.437, Penguin

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• Use your past as one of your mentors.

  Jim Rohn

  Past, Mentor, Use

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• The bottom line is that you are the one who is creating your life the way it is. The life you currently live is the result of all your past thoughts and actions. You are in charge of your current thoughts and your present feelings.

  Jack Canfield

  Past, Creating, Feelings

  Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer (2009). “The Success Principles(TM)”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• Whoever we may be, whatever our immediate interest, however much we carry baggage from our past, however much we have been caught by the fashion of cynicism and loss of faith in the capacity of the people, let us err today and say - nothing can stop us now!

  Thabo Mbeki

  Fashion, Loss, Past

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• And we should forget, day by day, what we have done; this is true non-attachment. And we should do something new. To do something new, of course we must know our past, and this is alright. But we should not keep holding onto anything we have done; we should only reflect on it. And we must have some idea of what we should do in the future. But the future is the future, the past is the past; now we should work on something new.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Past, Attachment, Ideas

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• I am convinced that in all history there has never been a greater need to Pray for our Pastors than exists right now! Pastors are experiencing an unprecedented wave of attacks, stresses, challenges. obstacles. pressures.

  Saint Augustine

  Stress, Challenges, Needs

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• As an actor, you're constantly searching for that great character. Also, being a history buff and learning about people in our past and amazing things that they've done, I came across a book about Howard Hughes and he was set up as basically, the most multi-dimensional character I could ever come across. Often, people have tried to define him in biographies, but no one seems to be able to categorize him.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Book, Character, Past

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• DUE TO OUR FEELINGS ARISING FROM CONTACT, we think and we rationalize, conceptualize, theorize, philosophize and speculate. Because of the feeling arising from the six senses, we increase our desire; we come to wrong views and wrong beliefs. We recall our past sights, smells, sounds, tastes, touches and ideas and build up more desires, thoughts, concepts, beliefs, ideas, theories and philosophies.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Philosophy, Past, Thinking

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• It is freeing to become aware that we do not have to be victims of our past and can learn new ways of responding. Forgiveness is love practiced among people who love poorly. It sets us free without wanting anything in return.

  Henri Nouwen

  Past, People, Way

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• The blessings we enjoy now are because we made the choice to follow the Savior before this life. To everyone hearing or reading these words, whoever you are and whatever your past may be, remember this: it is not too late to make that same choice again to follow him.

  Robert D. Hales

  Reading, Blessing, Past

  FaceBook post by Robert D Hales from Apr 23, 2015

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• We owe it to our past futile sacrifices to continue making further futile sacrifices.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Sacrifice, Past

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• A good relationship is when someone accepts your past, supports your present and encourages your future.

  Zig Ziglar

  Past, Good Relationship, Support

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Oct 04, 2014

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• If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Mean, Past, Listening

  D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1995). “Reflections: A Treasury of Daily Readings”, Nelson Bibles

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• Trust in Divine timing. Your future holds something far greater than your past.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Past, Timing, Divine

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• Our past is not, as some fear, a series of events carved in stone that we must carry around for the rest of our lives... but a kaleidoscope of experiences that, when viewed through different lenses, can 'color' (change) how we see our present and future.

  Bill Crawford

  Past, Color, Events

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• Don't let your past determine your destiny.

  Confucius

  Past, Destiny, Determine

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• When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say.

  Lionel Richie

  Past, Answers, Nothing New

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• At each point in our lives, we are at a crossroads. We are the fruit of our past and we are the architects of our future... If you want to know your past, look at your present circumstances. If you want to know your future, look at what is in your mind.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Past, Mind, Want

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• Anytime we drag our past into the future, we have some grieving to do. When we refuse to grieve, we hang on to the weight of life that slows us down and robs us from finding our lives.

  Steve Arterburn

  Grieving, Past, Weight

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• There was unusual unanimity on our pastoral responsibility to care for the immigrants in our midst no matter their country of origin or religious affiliation.

  Wilton Daniel Gregory

  Country, Religious, Responsibility

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• Don't let your past dictate your future.

  Bill Johnson

  Past, Your Future, Your Past

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• I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to make a connection with our past in order to determine the kind of future we're going to have. In other words, we simply need to know who we are in relation to our historical presence in America.

  August Wilson

  Past, Thinking, Order

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• Moving forward is not based upon your past; your future is exclusively determined by the decisions you make now, in this moment.

  Mike Michalowicz

  Motivational, Success, Moving

  Mike Michalowicz (2008). “The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The Tell-it-like-it-is Guide to Cleaning Up in Business, Even If You are at the End of Your Roll”, p.126, Toilet Paper Entrepreneur

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• I have . . . a deep concern with the development of a literature worthy of our past, and of our destiny; without which literature certainly, we can never come to much. I have a deep concern with the development of an audience worthy of such a literature.

  Sterling K. Brown

  Past, Destiny, Development

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