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• If you believe that you are bad and unacceptable, you are unable to look back at your past with pleasure or your future with hope. Only bad things happened to you in the past, and only bad things will happen to you in the future.

  Dorothy Rowe

  Believe, Past, Optimism

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• Life is like a game of chess...there are many moves possible, but each move determines your next move...where you wind up is the sum total of all your past moves...but first you have to make some kind of move.

  Mort Walker

  Life, Moving, Past

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• Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Past, Sea

  "APEC to meet on ocean conservation". www.cnn.com. October 9, 1998.

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• We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Past, Parent, Advice

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• If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Nature, Future, Love You

  Terry Tempest Williams (2008). “Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert”, p.76, Vintage

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• Your past does not determine who you are. Your past prepares you for who you are to become.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Future

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• Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.

  Dan Brown

  Inspirational, Moving On, Letting Go

  Dan Brown (2006). “Deception Point”, p.645, Simon and Schuster

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• Your past history and all of your hurts are no longer here in your physical reality. Don't allow them to be here in your mind, muddying your present moments. Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much longer. But all are necessary, otherwise they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Moving On, Letting Go

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 03, 2012

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• Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.

  Tony Campolo

  Moving, Past, Important

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• Ive learned that everything happens for a reason, the yogi Krishnan told him. Every event has a why and all adversity teaches us a lesson... Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.

  Robin Sharma

  Teacher, Regret, Adversity

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• My son tells me, 'Do you realize you are the last one? The last person who was an eyewitness to the golden age?' Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply. You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. I could show you some, but I'd have to climb ladders, and I can't climb

  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable, Son, Thinking

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• Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past, purely biological mode of change, and our current, maddening acceleration toward something new and liberating- or toward the abyss.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Past, Technology, Differences

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

  Alan Cohen

  Past, Your Past

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• The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us; it is our own in a way that nothing else in life is. In a word, we are our past; we do not cling to it, it clings to us.

  Grace King

  Real, Past, Way

  Grace King (1973). “Grace King of New Orleans: A Selection of Her Writings”, p.35, LSU Press

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• Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

  William Osler

  Past, Weather, Helping

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• My past behaviour makes me cringe.

  Denise Van Outen

  Past, Behaviour, Cringe

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• The mind can be thought of as containing reels and reels of motion picture film about our past experiences. These images are superimposed not only on each other but also on the lens through which we experience the present.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Past, Mind, Experience

  Gerald G. Jampolsky (2010). “Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition”, p.42, Celestial Arts

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• The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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• Upgrade your past by seeing it with appreciation.

  Alan Cohen

  Appreciation, Past, Seeing

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• Be alert and present and see that your identity is not from your past story; who you truly are is the alert presence that is inseparable from the present moment. You are this, which has no name and no form.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Names, Identity

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jun 02, 2011

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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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• We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility.

  Daniel Beaty

  Past, Overcoming, Way

  Daniel Beaty (2014). “Transforming Pain to Power: Unlock Your Unlimited Potential”, p.69, Penguin

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• We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.

  Will Rogers

  Past, America, Hot

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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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