Our Past Quotes - Page 2

• We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Buddhist, Past, Needs

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Sep 10, 2012

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• Do not let anything from your past inhibit you in this Present Moment. Start over. Start Fresh. Each day. Each hour, if it serves you. Heck, each minute. Just get going. Just do it. Just say it. With love. All else will take care of itself.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Acceptance, Past, Starting Over

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• We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.

  Lauren Oliver

  Past, Self, Killers

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.761, Hachette UK

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• People never leave, we are always here in our past and future lives.

  Paulo Coelho

  Past, People, Future Life

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• Our scars make us know that our past was for real

  Jane Austen

  Real, Past, Scar

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• Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.

  Robin Sharma

  Teacher, Regret, Inspirational Life

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• We preach and practice brotherhood — not only of man but of all living beings — not on Sundays only but on all the days of the week. We believe in the law of universal justice — that our present condition is the result of our past actions and that we are not subjected to the freaks of an irresponsible governor, who is prosecutor and judge at the same time; we depend for our salvation on our own acts and deeds and not on the sacrificial death of an attorney.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Believe, Sunday, Men

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• Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mistake, Character, Past

  Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Penny Dreadfuls: Tales of Horror: Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.719, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Make peace with your past - so it won't spoil the present!

  Denise Austin

  Inspirational, Peace, Past

  FaceBook post by Denise Austin from Jan 20, 2012

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• Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it then the picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.

  Guy Finley

  Inspirational, Past, Reality

  Guy Finley (1994). “Freedom From the Ties That Bind: The Secret of Self Liberation”, p.13, BookBaby

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• The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Past, Race, Ideas

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• Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Inspirational, Life, Congratulations

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

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• Jesus heals your PAST, is your very PRESENT help and takes care of your FUTURE.

  Joseph Prince

  Jesus, Past, Care

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• A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

  Martial

  Life, Past, Men

  "Epigrams" (c. 80-104 AD), X. 23. 7 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.

  Adora Svitak

  Past, Ignorant, Uninformed

  "Do We Treat History Like a Dead Language?" by Adora Svitak, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2011.

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• An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.

  Haile Selassie

  Past, Personality, Identity

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• To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

  Alan Cohen

  Attitude, Past, Destiny

  Alan Cohen (1990). “Joy Is My Compass: Taking the Risk to Follow Your Bliss”, Dolphin Communications Company

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• Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Love, Wedding, Past

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Remembering our past, carrying it around with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of the self. To ensure that the self doesn’t shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends. They are our mirror; our memory; we ask nothing of them but that they polish the mirror from time to time so we can look at ourselves in it.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Flower, Past

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• We are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well. Americans, for instance, retain a frontier spirit even though the only frontier that remains is that vast open space between the SUV and strip mall. We are our past.

  Eric Weiner

  Past, Space, Suvs

  Eric Weiner (2014). “The Geography of Bliss”, p.149, Random House

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• Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Past, Rivers, Water

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• In our past lies our future. By our own hands and decisions we will be damned and we will be saved. Whatever you do, put forth your best effort even if all you're doing is chasing a never ending rainbow. You might never reach the end of it, but along the way you'll meet people who will mean the world to you and make me...mories that will keep you warm on even the coldest nights

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Lying, Mean, Past

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• I never lied to you. (Kiara) Of course you did –you said you could see the real us– that we weren’t as bad as we claimed. But you didn’t and, just like everyone else, so long as we risk our lives to protect and save you, we’re okay. But the moment we have to make a choice not ours, the moment you see what our pasts have made us, you’re horrified by the truth and hate us for it like we had some kind of choice in what we are. (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hate, Real, Past

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• The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Past, Names

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• The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

  Dan Brown

  Past, Decision, Architect

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.42, Knopf

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