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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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• Whether we live together in confidence and cohesion; with more faith and pride in ourselves and less self-doubt and hesitation; strong in the conviction that the destiny of Canada is to unite, not divide; sharing in cooperation, not in separation or in conflict; respecting our past and welcoming our future.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Strong, Pride, Past

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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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• The government tells us we need flood control and comes to straighten the creek in our pasture. The engineer on the job tells us the creek is now able to carry off more flood water, but in the process we have lost our old willows where the owl hooted on a winter night and under which the cows switched flies in the noon shade. We lost the little marshy spot where our fringed gentians bloomed.

  Aldo Leopold

  Jobs, Winter, Night

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.165, Oxford University Press

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• We are a part of everything that is beneath us, above us, and around us. Our past is our present, our present is our future, and our future is seven generations past and present.

  Winona LaDuke

  Past, Environmental, Generations

  Winona LaDuke (1999). “All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life”, p.12, South End Press

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• We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

  Stephen Covey

  Change, Responsibility, Animal

  "CNN Live On Location", www.cnn.com. January 9, 2003.

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• In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.

  Brennan Manning

  Healing, Past, Light

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• You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories.

  Deborah Moggach

  Sister, Memories, Sibling

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• Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Past, Anchors, Literature

  "'Why Not Have Our Own World?' Interview with Andrzej Wajda". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. 2005.

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• So time over time what will change the world, no one knows? The only promise is a day to live, to give and share with one another.
 See the wisdom from mistakes in our past; the promise of a new day.


  Paula Abdul

  Mistake, Past, Giving

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• Pain is a spiritual wake-up call showing you that there are oceans you have not yet explored. Step beyond the world you know. Reach for heights that you never thought possible. Go to places you have deemed off limits. This is the time to take off the shell of your past and step into the rich possibilities of your future. God does not give us dreams that we cannot fulfill. If you want to do something great with your life-whether it's to fall madly in love, become a teacher, be a great parent-if you aspire to do something beyond what you are doing now, this is the time to begin. Trust yourself.

  Debbie Ford

  Dream, Spiritual, Teacher

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• To Toronto City Council:
  The Sam The Record Man store and sign were important fixtures in Toronto's musical landscape as well as its Civic history. Sadly, all that remains now are our memories of the store and this magnificant neon sign. Ryerson and they City of Toronto should absolutely preserve what myself and many of its citizens consider to be an important symbol of our past and of that store's contributions to our culture.

  Geddy Lee

  Memories, Past, Men

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• To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid that release your past. Sweat is an ancient and universal form of self healing, whether done in the gym, the sauna, or the sweat lodge. I do it on the dance floor. The more you dance, the more you sweat. The more you sweat, the more you pray. The more you pray, the closer you come to ecstasy.

  Gabrielle

  Prayer, Healing, Past

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• Every event has a purpose and every setback a lesson. Failure is essential to personal expansion. It brings inner growth and a whole host of psychic rewards. Never regret your past. Rather embrace it as the teacher it is.

  Robin S

  Teacher, Regret, Past

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• God is able to take the mess of our past and turn it into a message. He takes the trials and tests and turns them into a testimony.

  Christine Caine

  Past, Able, Messages

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Dec 28, 2015

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• The mindless junk of your past crowds out opportunities and sets pointless limitations. Move out the junk, and you create room for the rest of your life. Ultimately, it's not just a question of tidying your house; it's a question of liberating your heart.

  Merlin Mann

  Success, Moving, Heart

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• The worst is when someone in your past trumps the person in your present, and you think to yourself: if I'd known this, then maybe I wouldn't have let him go.

  Emily Giffin

  Past, Thinking, Let Him Go

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Baby Proof: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Revisit your past only to recognize how far you have come.

  Alan Cohen

  Past, Your Past

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• Our past can control today and tomorrow only to the degree we allow it. The past should not be a place where we dwell but a place from which we learn all we can and then move on.

  Sue Augustine

  Moving, Past, Degrees

  Sue Augustine (2005). “When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present: Getting Beyond Fears That Hold You Back”, p.45, Harvest House Publishers

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• I think the secret is to understand that you still want to be part of the game. To do so, you have to forget all the victories you've managed to get in the previous years and have a great humility. You also need to realise that, if you want to go on, you have to work hard. If you dwell too much on your past successes and say "well, I have won nine world titles and more than 100 races", you'd rather stay home.

  Valentino Rossi

  Humility, Hard Work, Home

  "I still have the strength to go head-to-head with my rivals". Yamaha Motor Intreview, global.yamaha-motor.com. 2014.

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• I wrote lots of scripts that never got made and they were terrible. I thought they were good at the time. You can't write two scripts and expect your career to take off. Keep writing. Be you. Be original. A lot of people go for a genre, which is fine if you can do that really well, but we all have such layered histories. We all come from a unique background. Write about your past, write about you. Or make stuff up, but make it about something that really matters.

  Nicole Holofcener

  Writing, Unique, Past

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• For our past can be a prison we are locked in permanently, or it can be the key to our freedom if we glean the lessons from it and deal with it directly.

  Kevin Powell

  Past, Keys, Lessons

  "An Open Letter to Chris Brown" by Kevin Powell, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2011.

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• No matter how painful your past has been, you have made it through.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Past, Matter, Painful

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