Our Past Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• 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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• Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.

  John Slattery

  Memories, Past, Stories

  "John Slattery is a natural" by Katie Fischer, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 7, 2012.

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• One aspect of power is to bring our past-life awareness into this lifetime. The second aspect of power is to go into new fields of awareness that we have never experienced.

  Frederick Lenz

  Power, Past, Fields

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• Your life is a reflection of your past thoughts. That includes all the great things, and all the things you consider not so great... Think thoughts of abundance and wealth, and do not allow any contradictory thoughts to take root.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Thinking, Reflection, Past

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• We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Fall, Past, Promise

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works: Presidential addresses and state papers, Dec. 3, 1901, June 1910, and European addresses. 8 v”

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• I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Islamic, Past, People

  Message to the Nation on the occasion of the first Anniversary of Pakistan, August 14, 1948.

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• You let your past destroy you, or you use it to create something better

  Tyler Perry

  Past, Use, Something Better

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• The pages of your past cannot be rewritten, but the pages of your tomorrows are blank.

  Zig Ziglar

  Past, Pages, Tomorrow

  Zig Ziglar (2004). “Courtship After Marriage: Romance Can Last a Lifetime”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Awakenings are always terrifying as they force you to realize your past has been lived in confinement, the most disturbing part is when you recognize that the shackle holding you down are largely once you have placed upon yourself, the prison is self constructed

  Dean Karnazes

  Past, Self, Awakening

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• You can get over a broken past if you decide to believe that there's nothing in your past that can keep you from having a great future.

  Joyce Meyer

  Believe, Past, Broken

  Twitter post from May 30, 2015

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• With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Children, Past, Parent

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• It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

  George Eliot

  Past, Self, Sorrow

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.415, 谷月社

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• If a friend is the one who summons us to our best, then is not Jesus Christ our best friend, and should we not think of the Communion as one of His chief appeals to us to be our best? The Lord's Supper looks not back to our past with a critical eye, but to our future, with a hopeful one. The Master appeals from what we have been to what we may be. He bids us come, not because we are better than we have been, but because He wants us to be. To stay away because our hearts are cold is to refuse to go to the fire till we are warm.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Jesus, Eye, Heart

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers; they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past.

  Alexander Smith

  Flower, Past, Bed

  Alexander Smith, Peter Pauper Press (1947). “Dreamthorp: eight essays”

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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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• 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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• 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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