Our Past Quotes - Page 12

• Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever work of art we're experiencing at that moment, and that's what makes it interesting. It's not mathematics. There are different answers for different people.

  Paul Auster

  Art, Book, Past

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.

  Brian Wilson

  Mean, Past, Long

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• 'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.

  Edward Young

  Wise, Past, Heaven

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.23

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• The past doesn’t exist except as a memory, a mental story, and though past events aren’t changeable, your stories about them are. You can act now to transform the way you tell the story of your past, ultimately making it a stalwart protector of your future.

  Martha Beck

  Memories, Past, Events

  "Regret Nothing: Martha Beck on Saying 'Sorry'" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• Good friends we have had, oh good friends we've lost along the way
  In this bright future you can't forget your past
  So dry your tears I say.

  Bob Marley

  Good Friend, Past, Tears

  "Song: 'No Woman, No Cry'". 1974.

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• All of us benefit from remembering our past. A people which remembers does not repeat past errors; instead, it looks with confidence to the challenges of the present and the future.

  Pope Francis

  Past, Errors, People

  Pope Francis (2016). “The Allure of Goodness and Love: Pope Francis in the United States Complete Texts”, p.73, Liturgical Press

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• To me, that's where memories are very interesting because what happens when we start losing memories? What happens when you can't take your memories with you? Who are we without our memories, without our past?

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Memories, Past, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My main concern is the political dimension of European integration. This is one of the most important issues of all, as far as I'm concerned. It has to do with our past, with our sensitivity, perhaps even our hypersensitivity in this regard.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Past, Issues, Political

  "'The Past Is the Past'". Interview with Christian Neef and Jan Puhl, Renata Hanusova, www.spiegel.de. March 13, 2006.

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• If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Believe, Character

  "And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America". Book by Margaret Mead, 1942.

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• Your past doesn't define you. Only your present and your future. If your life is screwed up, stop making excuses. What are you going to do about it today?

  Ingrid Weir

  Life, Past, Today

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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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• 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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• When we leave our child in nursery school for the first time, it won't be just our child's feelings about separation that we will have to cope with, but our own feelings as well-from our present and from our past, parents are extra vulnerable to new tremors from old earthquakes.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, School, Past

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• Orthodox churches, autocracy and national traditions are supposed to form a new national ideology in Russia. This would mean that Russia would be overtaken by its past, and our past would be our future.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Mean, Past, Russia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We with my husband [Joseph Millar] are often the first reader for one another's work, and we often also have the last word. We trust each other. We have our past working life in common, our recombined families, as well as our life as teachers, and we read much of the same literature and have similar esthetics, so there's a simpatico there. But we do disagree and that can be fruitful, even if it's not so great in the moment.

  Dorianne Laux

  Teacher, Husband, Past

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• There is no past. That's another illusion. Everything that has ever happened to you, to me, to anyone in this world, happened in the present moment. That's all there ever is. So your relationship to life isn't your relationship to your past, it's your relationship to the present moment.

  Wayne Dyer

  Past, World, Moments

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• Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack.

  Desmond Tutu

  Past, Trying, Faces

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Whether you are sixteen or sixty, the rest of your life is ahead of you. You cannot change one moment of your past, but you can change your whole future. Now is your time.

  Matthew Kelly

  Past, Rest Of Your Life, Sixteen

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.19, BookBaby

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• Insisting on living in your past will kill your future. Let it go.

  Tony Evans

  Inspirational, Christian, Letting Go

  FaceBook post by Tony Evans from Apr 10, 2012

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• Why wish for the privilege of living your past life again? You begin a new one every morning

  Robert Quillen

  Morning, Past, Wish

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• Our past is not the thing that matters so much in this world as what we intend to do with the future.

  Shoghi Effendi

  Past, World, Matter

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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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• 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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• The morality of clean blood ought to be one of the first lessons taught us by our pastors and teachers. The physical is the substratum of the spiritual; and this fact ought to give to the food we eat, and the air we breathe, a transcendent significance.

  William Tyndale

  Spiritual, Teacher, Air

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• Every event has a purpose and every setback its lesson. I have realized that failure, whether of the personal, professional or even spiritual kind, is essential to personal expansion. It brings inner growth and a whole host of psychic rewards. Never regret your past. Rather, embrace it as the teacher that it is.

  Robin Sharma

  Spiritual, Teacher, Regret

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.21, Jaico Publishing House

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