Our Past Quotes - Page 15

• At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Character, Past, Years

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Future, Past, Habit

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• I mean, when you've had a problem in your past, whether it's attributed directly to high cholesterol or not, you want to lower your cholesterol. You want to eat healthy. You want to feel healthy. You want to have a little more energy.

  Mike Ditka

  Sports, Mean, Past

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• If you became grateful, right now, for everything that ever happened in your past, how would that impact your view of the future?

  Eric Edmeades

  Motivational, Grateful, Past

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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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• 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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• If the devil starts bringing up your past it's because he's running out of new material!

  Jentezen Franklin

  Running, Past, Devil

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• You see, I have no real complaints of how you've left your past behind I guess what gets me worried is you've erased him from your mind.

  Harry Chapin

  Real, Past, Mind

  Song: I Wonder What Happened to Him, Album: Dance Band on the Titanic, 1977

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• With us the inner nature accords with the outer expectation. The body follows the mind, and the mind seeks the soul, which it strives toward but has not yet won. With you it is otherwise. The mind follows the body in pursuit of the soul you have been told you already have. Because you cannot find it, you assume you have lost it somewhere in your past, and this keeps you from achieving it in your future.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Past, Expectations, Soul

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• Never carry the baggage of your past relationships on the honeymoon of your future relationships.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Past, Baggage, Honeymoon

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• In the Eleusinian mysteries, they would always warn people, "if you go in here, your ego will die. You're going to have to confront all your past hang-ups, strip them off, and be a changed person." One emperor of Rom who wanted to be initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries said, "That's interesting, I approve of what you're doing, but I don't want to be changed.

  Timothy Leary

  Past, People, Interesting

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.84, Ronin Publishing

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• Our most merciless enemy is our past.

  Maxim Gorky

  Past, Enemy

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• You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

  Phillips Brooks

  Letting Go, Past, Way

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

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• The narrative that each person tells herself and others is a big part of how we construct our self-identities. It's one of the most important ways that we make sense of our past and present and understand our hopes for the future.

  Peg O'Connor

  Past, Self, Identity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• God's never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.

  Bob Goff

  Past, Nervous, Our Future

  Twitter post from May 11, 2015

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• I discovered that our clan included loads of cousins and uncles and aunts and animals of every shape. I was taught that chaos and competition were family values. And I learned that we all loved the sea. Somehow, the sea was about us-our past, our exuberance, our frailty, our longing.

  Timothy Shriver

  Cousin, Uncles, Past

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• Don't let your past dictate who you are, but let it be part of who you will become.

  Louis Mandylor

  Past, Your Past, Who You Are

  "Fictional character: Nick Portokalos". "My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Nia Vardalos: Toula Portokalos", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Your past comes with you no matter where you go.

  Dale Peck

  Past, Matter, Your Past

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• People who achieve great things are people who make choices. Far too many people today let life dictate their future instead of the other way around. Choices are hard - that's why so few actually make them. But as the saying goes - not to make a choice is to make a choice. When it comes to choices, The question is - what choices will you make today? The world doesn't care about your problems, or what's holding you back. They don't care about your past failures, or any other obstacles you face. Stop making excuses and start making choices.

  Phil Cooke

  Past, People, Choices

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• You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.

  Ann Brashares

  Past, Remember, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Feb 15, 2013

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• You can be happy if you are willing to let go of your past and leave yourself unencumbered so you can fly freely.

  Chris Prentiss

  Letting Go, Past, Willing

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.40, BookBaby

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• We are programmed by our past beliefs, which we inherited from our parents, our cultural traditions sometimes, and our social conditioning.

  Deepak Chopra

  Past, Parent, Belief

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• By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.

  Albert Ellis

  Failure, Past, Errors

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