Our Past Quotes - Page 15

• The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons, new chains. Response is out of freedom, hence it brings more freedom. Reaction is out of the past; you act according to your memories, built-in by your experiences, conditionings. You react not to the present, not in the present. You don`t reflect the real situation as it is; you go on interpreting it according to your past, your past experiences. The man who is awake is like a mirror: he reflects that which is the case. HE IS AWAKE.

  Rajneesh

  Memories, Freedom, Real

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• Quit putting yourself in a little box by trying to live consistently with your past and explaining every little action you take. BE YOU. Fully. In this moment. Independent of what others may or may not 'expect' from you.

  Brian Johnson

  Independent, Past, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Integrity, Past, Essence

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• We also recommit to supporting tribal self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans. While we cannot erase the scourges or broken promises of our past, we will move ahead together in writing a new, brighter chapter in our joint history.

  Barack Obama

  Determination, Moving, Native American

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• Our past experiences may have made us the way we are, but we don't have to stay that way.

  Joyce Meyer

  Change, Past, Self

  Twitter post from May 2, 2012

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• As you continue the work of acknowledging and claiming the gifts of your past and standing in the power of your present, you are freeing up enormous reserves of creative energy.

  Debbie Ford

  Past, Creative, Energy

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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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• It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter'.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Past, Doe, Culture

  "VS Naipaul withdraws from Turkish event after row over Islam comments" by Benedicte Page, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2010.

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• The history of humanity is not a hotel where someone can rent a room whenever it suits him; nor is it a vehicle which we board or get out of at random. Our past will be for us a burden beneath which we can only collapse for as long as we refuse to understand the present and fight for a better future. Only then — but from that moment on — will the burden become a blessing, that is, a weapon in the battle for freedom.

  Hannah Arendt

  Fighting, Blessing, Past

  "The Jewish Writings".

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• Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.

  Eric Liu

  Past, Government, Understanding

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• It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

  Livy

  Past, Errors, Easier

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXX, section 30,

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• Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.

  Eric Hoffer

  Courage, Pain, Past

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?

  Anna Funder

  Past, Grit, Pearls

  Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.162, Granta Books

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• The things we have in common from our past, long past, are often in my mind. Now that it is all over bar the final destruction of the weapons I look forward to the freedom to lay bare my experiences unfettered by codes now redundant.
  This is the only freedom left to me and those Republicans of like mind.

  Dolours Price

  Past, Long, Mind

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• If you are God's child, you are no longer bound to your past or to what you were. You're a new creature in Jesus Christ.

  Kay Arthur

  Christian, Jesus, Children

  Kay Arthur (2008). “Search My Heart, O God: 365 Appointments with God”, p.362, WaterBrook

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• The judgment: You are now before Yama, King of the Dead. In vain will you try to...deny or conceal the evil deeds you have done. ... the mirror in which Yama seems to read your past is your own memory, and also his judgment is your own. It is you yourself who pronounce your own judgment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kings, Memories, Book

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• Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.

  Michael Simkins

  Past, Paris, Weight

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• We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our past -- in the traditional society which produced us.

  Julius Nyerere

  Past, Democracy, Needs

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• When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.

  Bill Crawford

  Responsibility, Past, Limits

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• I don't want your future,
  I don't need your past.
  One bright moment
  Is all I ask.

  Florence Welch

  Past, Needs, Want

  "Song: 'Leave My Body'". 2011.

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• To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that it defines your capacity for future experience. As a social scientist, you have to control this rather elaborate interplay, to capture what you experience and sort it out; only in this way can you hope to use it to guide and test your reflection, and in the process shape yourself as an intellectual craftsman

  C. Wright Mills

  Mean, Reflection, Past

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.196, Oxford University Press

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• One day I was living silently in a personal hell, without anyone to tell what I felt, without even knowing that the feelings I had were possible to have; and then one day I was not living like that at all. I had begun to see the past like this: there is a line; you can draw it yourself, or sometimes it gets drawn for you; either way, there it is, your past, a collection of people you used to be and things you used to do. Your past is the person you no longer are, the situations you are no longer in.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Past, Knowing, People

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• some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.

  Beth Moore

  Past, Race, Defeat

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• Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.

  Bill Crawford

  Meaningful, Past, Creating

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• I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to

  Edwidge Danticat

  Daughter, Children, Memories

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