Our Past Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• We either allow our past to keep interfering with our optimal expression of love and happiness, or we can move beyond our past with renewed passion for life

  Deepak Chopra

  Moving, Passion, Past

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• When you focus upon lack in an attitude of complaining, you establish a vibrational point of attraction that then gives you access only to more thoughts of complaint. Your deliberate effort to tell a new story will establish a new pattern of thought, providing you with a new point of attraction from your present, about your past, and into your future. The simple effort of looking for positive aspects will set a new vibrational tone that will begin the immediate attraction of thoughts, people, circumstances, and things that are pleasing to you.

  Esther Hicks

  Attitude, Past, Simple

  "Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness". Book by Esther Hicks and Jerry Hicks, 2008.

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• You are not the product of your circumstances. You are a composite of all the things you believe, and all the places you believe you can go. Your past does not define you. You can step out of your history and create a new day for yourself. Even if the entire culture is saying, "You can't." Even if every single possible bad thing that can happen to you does. You can keep going forward.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Past, New Day

  "One Incredible Journey: The Ultimate Oprah and Gayle Conversation". Interview with Gayle King, www.oprah.com. May 10, 2011.

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• Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

  Clinton D. McKinnon

  Mistake, Failure, Past

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• Trust God's love. His perfect love. Don't fear He will discover your past. He already has. Don't fear disappointing Him in the future. He can show you the chapter in which you will. With perfect knowledge of the past and perfect vision of the future, He loves you perfectly in spite of both.

  Max Lucado

  Love You, Past, Visions Of The Future

  Max Lucado (2007). “Lucado 3-in-1: Traveling Light, Next Door Savior, Come Thirsty”, p.158, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Live today. Let go of your attachment to your past as an excuse for your life conditions today. You are the product of the choices you are making right now.

  Wayne Dyer

  Letting Go, Past, Attachment

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Aug 27, 2013

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• Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures have not passed through your mind, as through a sieve, and vanished, leaving not a rack behind, why then do you not, like a thankful guest, rise cheerfully from life's feast, and with a quiet mind go take your rest.

  Lucretius

  Death, Past, Leaving

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• Never regret your past. You have to move on and learn from it.

  Taylor Swift

  Regret, Moving, Past

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• As exciting, difficult, and memorable as our past can be, there comes a time when we have to get on with living.

  Patrick Carman

  Memorable, Past, There Comes A Time

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• You give up your future, lose your dreams, are stained with despair . . . Yet at the same time you shake off your past, fight reality, and never lose your nobility.

  SebastiAn

  Dream, Giving Up, Fighting

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• There was unusual unanimity on our pastoral responsibility to care for the immigrants in our midst no matter their country of origin or religious affiliation.

  Wilton Daniel Gregory

  Country, Religious, Responsibility

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• Unless you loosen the hold that your past has on you, your future will unfold in much the same way . . . it is time to begin writing a new script that accurately reflects the beautiful, powerful, and worthy being you are.

  David Simon

  Beautiful, Powerful, Writing

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• America is not so much a country as it is an idea, and that must be why so many people are drawn to it, the idea of it, the idea that you might be free of your past, free of the traditions that kept you in your own traditions - that is the idea of it: freedom from your very own self.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Country, Past, Self

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• Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask - you are exhibiting your past life on your body.

  Keanu Reeves

  Tattoo, Past, Interesting

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• Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.

  Stephen Covey

  Success, Past, Excellence

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• There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep
  seeking reality though in fact we are reality. We
  think that there is something hiding reality and that
  this must be destroyed before reality is gained.
  How ridiculous! A day will dawn when you will laugh
  ... at all your past efforts. That which will be the day
  you laugh is also here and now.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Past, Reality, Thinking

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• Healing from our past is an essential aspect of expanding our sense of self and awakening our capacity to love. This shift often manifests as a change in the questions we've been asking ourselves. Instead of What do I need? we ask, How can I serve? Instead of What am I getting out of this? we start to ask, What can I bring to this situation to promote the highest possible outcome for everyone involved?

  David Simon

  Love, Healing, Past

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• As you continue the work of acknowledging and claiming the gifts of your past and standing in the power of your present, you are freeing up enormous reserves of creative energy.

  Debbie Ford

  Past, Creative, Energy

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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.
  The more you dance... the more you sweat, the more you pray. The more
  you pray, the closer you are to ecstasy.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Prayer, Past, Offering

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• Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?

  Anna Funder

  Past, Grit, Pearls

  Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.162, Granta Books

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• Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.

  Eric Hoffer

  Courage, Pain, Past

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The things we have in common from our past, long past, are often in my mind. Now that it is all over bar the final destruction of the weapons I look forward to the freedom to lay bare my experiences unfettered by codes now redundant.
  This is the only freedom left to me and those Republicans of like mind.

  Dolours Price

  Past, Long, Mind

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• It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter'.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Past, Doe, Culture

  "VS Naipaul withdraws from Turkish event after row over Islam comments" by Benedicte Page, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2010.

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• The history of humanity is not a hotel where someone can rent a room whenever it suits him; nor is it a vehicle which we board or get out of at random. Our past will be for us a burden beneath which we can only collapse for as long as we refuse to understand the present and fight for a better future. Only then — but from that moment on — will the burden become a blessing, that is, a weapon in the battle for freedom.

  Hannah Arendt

  Fighting, Blessing, Past

  "The Jewish Writings".

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