Our Past Quotes - Page 16

• Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself then. Everything you did is a part of the process that brought you here. All your past is as alive and real as your so-called 'present.'

  Janet Morris

  Real, Responsibility, Past

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.173, Paradise Publishing

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• Healing requires far more of us than just the participation of our intellectual and even our emotional resources. And it certainly demands that we do more than look backwards at the dead-end archives of our past. Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life.

  Caroline Myss

  Life, Healing, Past

  Caroline Myss (2009). “Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason”, p.16, Hay House, Inc

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• No matter what happened to you in your past, you are not your past, you are the resources and the capabilities you glean from it. And that is the basis for all change.

  Jordan Belfort

  Success, Past, Empowering

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

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• Perhaps the future of the world would be in better hands if we forgot about discovering something new and concentrated on recovering our past.

  Marlo Morgan

  Past, Hands, Discovering Something New

  Marlo Morgan (1991). “Mutant message down under”, Bookpeople

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• The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again.

  James Earl Jones

  Motivational, Baseball, Army

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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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• And we need to share our story. Not with everyone but with someone. There is someone who is like you were. And he or she needs to know what God can do. Your honest portrayal of your past may be the courage for another's future.

  Max Lucado

  God, Courage, Honesty

  Max Lucado (2011). “The Lucado Inspirational Reader: Hope and Encouragement for Your Everyday Life”, p.111, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• How you see your future is much more important that what has happened in your past.

  Zig Ziglar

  Past, Important, Your Future

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jul 30, 2013

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• I really believe that our past can really hold us back from growth, so the best thing that we can do is MOVE ON and NOT DWELL.

  Bob Harper

  Believe, Moving, Past

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• Research has shown over and over again that the more you acknowledge your past successes, the more confident you become in taking on and successfully accomplishing new ones.

  Jack Canfield

  Success, Confidence, Self Esteem

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Aug 08, 2013

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• Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. It turns problems into gifts, failures into successes, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. It can turn an existence into a real life, and disconnected situations into important and beneficial lessons. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Gratitude makes things right.

  Melody Beattie

  Gratitude, Mistake, Real

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• You cannot be to wedded to your past accomplishments.

  Mark Schaefer

  Past, Accomplishment, Your Past

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• You will probably have but a short time to live. Before you launch into eternity, it behooves you to improve the time that may be allowed you in this world: it behooves you most seriously to reflect upon your past conduct; to repent of your evil deeds, to be incessant in prayers to the great and merciful God to forgive your manifold transgressions and sins, to teach you to rely upon the merit and passion of a dear Redeemer.

  Thomas McKean

  Prayer, Passion, Past

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• From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a whole nation around inside of us, places and ways that have disappeared, believing that they are ours, that we alone hold the torch for our past, that we are as impenetrable as stone.

  Jane Hamilton

  Memories, Believe, Past

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• When something like this happens, you suddenly have no sense of reality at all. You have lost a piece of your past. The infidelity itself is small potatoes compared to the low-level brain damage that results when a whole chunk of your life turns out to have been completely different from what you thought it was. It becomes impossible to look back at anything that's happened ... without wondering what was really going on.

  Nora Ephron

  Past, Reality, Infidelity

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.64, Vintage

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• At times it may seem as though you and your past are one. Sometimes we fail to differentiate between what has happened to us and who we are today. If you have a hard time getting beyond that damaging mind-set let me encourage you right now. You are not your past Although you are changed and shaped by past experiences who you were yesterday does not control the person you have the potential to become tomorrow.

  Sue Augustine

  Hard Times, Past, Yesterday

  Sue Augustine (2005). “When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present: Getting Beyond Fears That Hold You Back”, p.18, Harvest House Publishers

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• Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about.

  Bill Whittle

  Book, Past, Hammers

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• Your past determines your future unless you’re clearly moving past your self and responding to what you know in your heart.

  John de Ruiter

  Moving, Heart, Past

  "No Longer Determined by Your Past". Interview, johnderuiter.com. July 1, 2014.

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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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• You are not your past, not your habits, not your compulsions. When you get to know who you are, anything becomes possible.

  Geneen Roth

  Monday, Morning, Past

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