Our Past Quotes - Page 10

• A powerful motivation for believing God in our present is intentionally remembering how He's worked in our past.

  Beth Moore

  Motivation, Powerful, Believe

  Beth Moore (2004). “Believing God”, p.176, B&H Publishing Group

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• People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.

  Norman Mailer

  Military, War, Moving

  Norman Mailer (1972). “Existential errands”, Signet

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• ... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens--if we are unaware that women even have a history--we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.

  Adrienne Rich

  Philosophy, Past, Wind

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.95, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• To have any kind of a future you've got to give up hope of ever changing your past.

  M. L. Stedman

  Giving Up, Past, Kind

  M.L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans: A Novel”, p.396, Simon and Schuster

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• Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past.

  Malcolm X

  Struggle, Past, Culture

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• You know the worst: your wills are fickle,
  Your values blurred, your hearts impure
  And your past life a ruined church--
  But let your poison be your cure.

  Louis MacNeice

  Suicide, Heart, Past

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.3, Faber & Faber

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• Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

  Clinton D. McKinnon

  Mistake, Failure, Past

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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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• We all tell little lies about ourselves, Our past, our presents. We think some of them are minuscule, unimportant, And others, large and incriminating. But they are the same. Only God Has enough of the story to judge our souls.

  Sarah McCoy

  Lying, Past, Thinking

  Sarah McCoy (2012). “The Baker's Daughter: A Novel”, p.53, Broadway Books

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• I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest.

  Graham Hancock

  Past, Intuition, Trying

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• If you remember your past too well you start blaming your present for it. Look what they did to me, that's what caused me to be like this, it's not my fault. Permit me to correct you: it probably is your fault. And kindly spare me the details.

  Julian Barnes

  Past, Faults, Details

  Julian Barnes (2010). “Talking It Over”, p.15, Random House

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• Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures have not passed through your mind, as through a sieve, and vanished, leaving not a rack behind, why then do you not, like a thankful guest, rise cheerfully from life's feast, and with a quiet mind go take your rest.

  Lucretius

  Death, Past, Leaving

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• Trust God's love. His perfect love. Don't fear He will discover your past. He already has. Don't fear disappointing Him in the future. He can show you the chapter in which you will. With perfect knowledge of the past and perfect vision of the future, He loves you perfectly in spite of both.

  Max Lucado

  Love You, Past, Visions Of The Future

  Max Lucado (2007). “Lucado 3-in-1: Traveling Light, Next Door Savior, Come Thirsty”, p.158, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• By approaching everything with a sense of suspicion and struggle, we like to think we're in control of things. But in truth our past karma is simply playing itself out. Instead of struggling with it, however, we can choose to dance.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Karma, Dance, Truth

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• Our past cannot be changed, and to be preoccupied with it is inefficient in time and effort. Likewise, by fretting over the future, we only exhaust ourselves, making us less able to effectively respond when the future is actually upon us. By worrying about a mishap that may or may not take place, we're forced to undergo the event twice-once when imagining it and once again if and when we actually experience it.

  H. E Davey

  Past, Ifs And, Worry

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• If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Mean, Past, Want

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• Every morning we get a chance to be different. A chance to change. A chance to be better. Your past is your past. Leave it there. Get on with the future part, honey.

  Nicole Williams

  Morning, Past, Different

  Nicole Williams (2014). “Lost & Found”, p.86, Nicole Williams

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• Don't regret your past...It has shaped you. Don't fear your future...It is yours to shape.

  Louise Hansen

  Regret, Past, Shapes

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• Voices surround us, always telling us to move faster. It may be our boss, our pastor, our parents, our wives, our husbands, our politicians, or, sadly, even ourselves. So we comply. We increase the speed. We live life in the fast lane because we have no slow lanes anymore. Every lane is fast, and the only comfort our culture can offer is more lanes and increased speed limits. The result? Too many of us are running as fast as we can, and an alarming number of us are running much faster than we can sustain.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Running, Husband, Live Life

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.63, Harper Collins

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• Through the deeply theraputic practice of asana, we begin to purify our karmas, thereby healing our past relationships with others and reestablishing a steady and joyful connection with the Earth, which means all beings.

  Sharon Gannon

  Karma, Healing, Mean

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• There is a way to change your past: Change your interpretation of your past! New interpretation, new past!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Change, Past, Way

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• As authentic as it is riveting and ultimately unforgettable. Your past will find you-and it can change your life. I think it's the most soulful book Patti Callahan has ever written.

  Dorothea Benton Frank

  Book, Past, Thinking

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• Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now.

  Bill Loguidice

  Past, Simple, Knowing

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• Every future turns into the past. The richness of your past dictates what you are today. It's not your decision what you are today, but what you will be tomorrow. This is where a part of your decision comes into play.

  Ruben Papian

  Past, Play, Decision

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