Our Past Quotes - Page 24

• There comes a point in your life when you realize:
  Who matters,
  Who never did,
  Who won't anymore,
  And who always will.
  So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.

  Adam Lindsay Gordon

  Life, Letting Go, Future

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• We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.

  Saint Augustine

  Mistake, Past, Needs

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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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• 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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• We can develop a social vaccine (Self-esteem). We can outgrow our past failures - our lives of crime and violence, alcohol and drug abuse, premature pregnancy, child abuse, chronic dependency on welfare, and education failure.

  John Vasconcellos

  Children, Self Esteem, Pregnancy

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• Do not die in the history of your past hurts and past experiences, but live in the now and future of your destiny.

  Michelle Obama

  Hurt, Past, Destiny

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• May your past be the sound of your feet upon the ground.

  Nate Ruess

  Past, Feet, Sound

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• If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.

  Jim Rohn

  Past, Thinking, Decision

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Aug 16, 2012

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• If you have ever felt hopeless hang on The night you're enduring may seem long but there is joy coming in the morning. Incredible changes are going to take place in your life as you begin to relinquish your past and renew your present.

  Sue Augustine

  Morning, Past, Night

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• Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up around you, and you find yourself writing your way out of loneliness, writing into your own company.

  Barbara Abercrombie

  Lonely, Loneliness, Writing

  Barbara Abercrombie (2012). “A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement”, p.117, New World Library

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• For most of the people there is no today and there is no tomorrow; for them, there is only the past times! Leave your past to live your today and to live your tomorrow!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Past, People, Today

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• It is impossible to carry everyone you know to your future! Most will remain in your past!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Past, Impossible, Your Future

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• Yesterday is history, but if you don't learn from your past mistakes you will continue to make the same mistakes. Tomorrow isn't a mystery. Go after your goals with every breathe you take, and the future is far from being a mystery. Today isn't a gift. You have to earn it every day.

  Steve Kaufman

  Mistake, Past, Yesterday

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• Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.

  Philip Carr-Gomm

  Lying, Cutting, Past

  Philip Carr-Gomm (2011). “Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century”, p.61, Random House

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• If your past is limited, your future is boundless.

  Franklin Pierce

  Past, Your Future, Boundless

  Franklin Pierce (1968). “Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• God wants to wipe away your past and lift your burdens. Do you let Him?

  Beth Moore

  Past, Wipe, Want

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• What does the enemy have to gain by convincing you to never deal with your past because your mind will never make it all the way through? It is a lie from the pit of hell. Today, claim your healing in Christ. It is your right as His child.

  Beth Moore

  Children, Lying, Healing

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• Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

  Melody Beattie

  Happiness, Thanksgiving, Thank You

  Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

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• It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Happiness, Mean

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Sex, Pain, Memories

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• Regardless of your past, your tomorrow is a clean slate.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Future, Past

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 25, 2014

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• Through Jesus, your past is explained, your present has a purpose, and your future is secure. What more could you really want in life?

  Jase Robertson

  Jesus, Past, Purpose

  Jase Robertson, Mark Schlabach (2014). “Good Call: Reflections on Faith, Family, and Fowl”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Live today. Remove all blame from your vocabulary. Catch yourself when you find yourself using your past history as a reason for your failure to act today, and instead say, 'I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.'

  Wayne Dyer

  Past, Vocabulary, Finding Yourself

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Dec 31, 2015

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• If you don't make peace with your past it will keep showing up in your present.

  Wayne Dyer

  Recovery, Loss, Past

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• Jesus never consults your past to determine your present.

  T. B. Joshua

  Jesus, Past, Determine

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