Our Past Quotes - Page 12

• You can't change your past but you can change you destiny but deciding for Christ.

  Billy Graham

  Past, Destiny, Choices

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• Use your past successes as a trampoline, not an easy chair.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Motivation, Past, Use

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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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• 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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• 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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• Never erase your past. It shapes who you are today and will help you to be the person you'll be tomorrow.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Past, Today, Shapes

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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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• The key to changing our past, present, and future is to create our piece of the PIE (our Perceptions, Interpretations, & Expectations) on purpose.

  Bill Crawford

  Past, Keys, Pie

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• That's my sole purpose in life is to sit here today and tell you that you can do this, in any life. You can do this in one of your past lives, in a future life, or right now. I prefer now.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, Purpose

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• Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can affect us. We live in the relative world of time and space.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Past

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• ... we are the products of our past. ... a web of complexities.

  Janet Leigh

  Past, Complexity, Products

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• Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Past, Sculpture, Accepting

  Louise Bourgeois, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (1999). “Louise Bourgeois: memoria y arquitectura : Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 16 de noviembre de 1999-14 de febrero del 2000”, Actar-D

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• You are not the mistakes of your past, but the resources and capabilities that you have gleaned from your past.

  Jordan Belfort

  Mistake, Past, Resources

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• Don't resurrect relationships with negative people off of good memories. You will only remind yourself why they became your past in the first place.

  Keshia Chante

  Memories, Past, People

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• There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep
  seeking reality though in fact we are reality. We
  think that there is something hiding reality and that
  this must be destroyed before reality is gained.
  How ridiculous! A day will dawn when you will laugh
  ... at all your past efforts. That which will be the day
  you laugh is also here and now.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Past, Reality, Thinking

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• Buddhists believe that you are who you are today is because of who you have been in all your past lives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Believe, Past

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.

  Robert Greene

  War, Past, Battle

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 33 Strategies Of War”, p.18, Profile Books

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• I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.

  Brennan Manning

  Prayer, Love You, Past

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• How we view ourselves can often determine the perspective and degree in which we see others and the world around us. Each and every one of us has a view. Such a view, that it can shape the future of others and how they live, dream and look towards the future that we all hope is better and more fruitful than our past. This I believe is a common initiative.

  Jeff Mills

  Dream, Believe, Past

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• 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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• ... 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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• 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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• When we reflect on our past sentiments and affections, our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects truly; but the colours which it employs are faint and dull, in comparison of those in which our original perceptions were clothed.

  David Hume

  Past, Mirrors, Faithful

  David Hume, Eric Steinberg (1992). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature”, p.10, Hackett Publishing

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• In one generation of silent neglect, we have allowed the revisionists of our history to rewrite our past and deny that we have a Christian heritage.

  Rick Scarborough

  Christian, Religious, Past

  Rick Scarborough (2008). “Enough is Enough”, p.40, Frontline

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• For all the injustices in our past and our present, we have to believe that in the free exchange of ideas, justice will prevail over injustice, tolerance over intolerance and progress over reaction.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Past, Ideas

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