Our Past Quotes - Page 3

• Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.

  Wayne Dyer

  Jobs, Past, Weather

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• An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go flopping along. By doing this he helps us to question and reassess our past, present and future situations, our assumptions and our options.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Past, Thinking

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• People should learn that you cannot dwell in your past. One who dwells in the past hurts not only himself, but also the people around him.

  Jun Mochizuki

  Hurt, Past, People

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• Your current conditions are echoes of your past choices.

  Robin Sharma

  Powerful, Past, Echoes

  Twitter post from Dec 30, 2016

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• The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Past, Astrology, Determined

  Dave DeLuca, Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God”, p.38, New World Library

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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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• 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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• Yesterday you can't alter, but your reaction to yesterday you can. The past you cannot change, but your response to your past you can.

  Max Lucado

  Past, Yesterday, Reactions

  Max Lucado (1999). “When God Whispers Your Name”, p.85, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Don't use the hardships of your past as excuses to deny the possibilities of your future.

  Robin Sharma

  Past, Use, Hardship

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Aug 05, 2014

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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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• The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Past, Visions Of The Future, Forget

  Ayi Kwei Armah (2000). “The healers: a novel”, Per Ankh Pub

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

  Jane Austen

  Real, Past, Scar

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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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• 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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• Your past, present, and future are taken care of as you put your trust in Jesus.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Jesus, Taken

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• 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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• That's why we feel so disoriented, irritated even, when these touchstones from our past are altered. We don't like it when our hometown changes, even in small ways. It's unsettling. The playground! It used to be right here, I swear. Mess with our hometown, and you're messing with our past, with who we are. Nobody likes that.

  Eric Weiner

  Past, Way, Likes

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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 loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Past, Long, People

  Jonathan Tropper (2010). “This Is Where I Leave You”, p.307, Hachette UK

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• STOP looking back!!!! When your past calls do NOT pick up!! it has nothing new to say.

  Joseph Simmons

  Past, Rapper, African American

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• Much as we wish, not one of us can bring back yesterday or shape tomorrow. Only today is ours, and it will not be ours for long, and once it is gone it will never in all time be ours again. Thou only knowest what it holds in store for us, yet even we know something of what it will hold. The chance to speak the truth, to show mercy, to ease another’s burden. The chance to resist evil, to remember all the good times and good people of our past, to be brave, to be strong, to be glad.

  Frederick Buechner

  Strong, Past, Yesterday

  Frederick Buechner (1981). “The hungering dark”

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• We are all affected by our pasts, but it is within our power not to let what we have done to dictate what we will do.

  P. C. Cast

  Past, Real Talk, Done

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2009). “Tempted: A House of Night Novel”, p.155, Macmillan

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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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• In order to live the life we desire, and set the intention for greater happiness and more meaningful connections with others, we have to release the hold that our past has on us

  Deepak Chopra

  Meaningful, Live Life, Past

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from May 21, 2014

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