Our Past Quotes - Page 7

• Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.

  Robert Greene

  War, Past, Battle

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 33 Strategies Of War”, p.18, Profile Books

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• I discovered that our clan included loads of cousins and uncles and aunts and animals of every shape. I was taught that chaos and competition were family values. And I learned that we all loved the sea. Somehow, the sea was about us-our past, our exuberance, our frailty, our longing.

  Timothy Shriver

  Cousin, Uncles, Past

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• As we go within the self, we discover that all the voices of our past lives are still there. As we peel ourselves, which is a process very much like peeling an onion, we discover that there are many selves within the self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, Voice

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• The Akashic Records are the impressions from all of our past lives that are available within our causal body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, Records

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• All the records of your past lives are contained within your own mind, just as the records of your ancestors are contained within your DNA.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, Dna

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• The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat it airily, lightly, wantonly, and in a spirit of poetry; and above all to use its symbols, which are its spiritual essence, giving them a new connotation, a fresh meaning.

  John Cowper Powys

  Spiritual, Mistake, Past

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• We haven't ever known our past. Your kids are no stupider than their grandparents.

  Sam Wineburg

  Kids, Past, Grandparent

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• We don't have to be victims of our past, that we can let go of our bitterness, and that all of us can achieve greatness.

  Nelson Mandela

  Letting Go, Past, Greatness

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• When I train, I love to take time off and fly to the Natural History Museum or an exhibition. I just love that. When you know your past, it will help you with your future… That’s why most of my friends are not fighters. Most of my friends are nerds like me. That’s why I have a hard time finding a girlfriend. I need someone to talk science with. I’m married to my work right now. But you never know. One day I could wake up and just do something different. Life is so unpredictable.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Girlfriend, Hard Times, Past

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• You can't dwell in your past but move forward, look forward. That's it.

  Caroline Wozniacki

  Moving, Past, Looks

  "Caroline Wozniacki - First Round". Interview, www.wimbledon.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow

  James M. Barrie

  Past, May, Helping

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• In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

  Jo Coudert

  Past, Order, Appreciate

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• You remember, you are drawn back to the pathway to enlightenment, to meditation, and when you begin to meditate your past life knowledge returns to you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, Remember You

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• We all fantasize about a relationship we'd like to do over or something we'd like to change about our past. I think there are a lot more opportunities for second chances in our lives than we think.

  Jean Smart

  Opportunity, Thinking, Second Chance

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• We all tell little lies about ourselves, Our past, our presents. We think some of them are minuscule, unimportant, And others, large and incriminating. But they are the same. Only God Has enough of the story to judge our souls.

  Sarah McCoy

  Lying, Past, Thinking

  Sarah McCoy (2012). “The Baker's Daughter: A Novel”, p.53, Broadway Books

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• I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest.

  Graham Hancock

  Past, Intuition, Trying

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• Power is knowing your past.

  Spike Lee

  Past, Knowing, Experience

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• To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Mistake, Past

  "Confinement and Ethnicity".

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• How we view ourselves can often determine the perspective and degree in which we see others and the world around us. Each and every one of us has a view. Such a view, that it can shape the future of others and how they live, dream and look towards the future that we all hope is better and more fruitful than our past. This I believe is a common initiative.

  Jeff Mills

  Dream, Believe, Past

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• Our past is the forge upon which we are hardened and tempered, to prepare us for the present. We are like a fine blade that must be hammered into shape before it can be ready to make its finest cuts.

  Larry Atchley Jr.

  Cutting, Past, Shapes

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• Baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.

  Terrence Mann

  Baseball, Past, Games

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• Self-love means caring for ourselves enough to forgive people in our past so that the wounds can no longer damage us - for our wounds do not hurt the people who hurt us, they hurt only us.

  Caroline Myss

  Hurt, Mean, Caring

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.204, Harmony

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• When you strip away the rhetoric, preservation is simply having the good sense to hold on to things that are well designed, that link us with our past in a meaningful way, and that have plenty of good use left in them.

  Richard Moe

  Meaningful, Past, Use

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• Believe in your potential, not your past.

  Hal Elrod

  Motivational, Encouragement, Attitude

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