Former Life Quotes

• My life really began when I married my husband.

  Nancy Reagan

  Husband, Married, First Lady

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• To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.

  Nancy Reagan

  Inspirational, Life, God

  "'Just Say No'". Address to the Nation, edition.cnn.com. September 14, 1986.

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• In my former life I was in insider, as much as anybody else. And I knew what it's like, and I still know what it's like to be an insider. It's not bad, it's not bad. Now I'm being punished for leaving the special club and revealing to you the terrible things that are going on having to do with America. Because I used to be part of the club, I'm the only one that can fix it.

  Donald Trump

  America, Leaving, Special

  "TRANSCRIPT: Donald Trump's Speech Responding To Assault Accusations". www.npr.org. October 13, 2016.

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• In my former life I was in insider, as much as anybody else. And I knew what it's like, and I still know what it's like to be an insider. It's not bad.

  Donald Trump

  Stills, Knows, Insiders

  " Donald Trump puts his messianic message in a new light" by Steve Benen, d.digests.nhub.news. October 14, 2016.

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• The last time I was in Chile, I was hypnotized by a friend who is studying to be a curandero, a healer, who led me back through several incarnations. It wasn't easy to return to the present, however, since my friend hadn't reached that part of the course, but the experiment was well worth the effort because I discovered that in former lives I was not Genghis Khan, as my mother believes.

  Isabel Allende

  Mother, Believe, Effort

  Isabel Allende (2003). “My invented country: a memoir”, HarperPerennial

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• The FA would remove him tomorrow if they had a spine, but clearly, in former lives, were cruel to jellyfish which is why they have returned as them now.

  Martin Samuel

  Soccer, Football, Tomorrow

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• It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.

  Martial

  Past, Enjoy, Recollection

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• do you not feel that sometimes in life one's friendships begin by antipathy - sometimes by indifference - and sometimes by that sudden magnetism of sympathy as if in some former life we had been very near and dear, and were only picking up the threads again, and to such two souls there is no feeling that they are strangers.

  Elinor Glyn

  Friendship, Two, Soul

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• Zombies have no memories of their former life. You wont see the undead trying to wash windows or do your taxes. All they know how to do is swarm and feed.

  Max Brooks

  Memories, Zombie, Trying

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• ...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Karma, Men, Order

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.8510, Delphi Classics

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• 'Perfect justice rules the world' for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives.

  Iamblichus

  Karma, Perfect, Justice

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• A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Thinking, Years

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.325

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• I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

  Henry Rollins

  Birthday, Creativity, Past

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This is going to sound weird, but when I was a kid my old man used to tell us that he was a Sioux Indian warrior in his former life. Native American culture was always big in my house - I don't know why.

  Marc Forgione

  Native American, Kids, Warrior

  "Marc Forgione: What It's Like to Be the Next Iron Chef". Interview with Eli Rosenberg, www.esquire.com. November 22, 2010.

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• Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.

  George Eliot

  Cutting, Two, Ties

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6046, Delphi Classics

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• If your primary focus is to get over your health problems or get past a relationship crisis so that you can return to your former life and old patterns- that is, get back to business as usual-you are not really living. The distinction is paradoxical and sometimes subtle. It's the difference between walking through your life on your way to somewhere, and walking as your life. Even if you believe that where you want to get is extremely important, that destination is secondary. Your immediate experience is what really matters. It is your life.

  Richard Moss

  Life, Believe, Past

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• There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Giving, Age, Goes On

  Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

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• He thinks of that ocean house and wishes he were back in his former life or that one could take one moment and remain inside it like an egg inside its shell, instead of constantly being hurried into the future by good luck or bad.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Ocean, Good Luck, Thinking

  Stephen Dobyns (1984). “Black dog, red dog: poems”, Owl Books

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• "This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than he was in his former life. Lead will play its role until the world has no further need for lead; and then lead will have to turn itself into gold. That's what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too."

  Paulo Coelho

  Boys, Play, Alchemist

  "The Alchemist". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1993.

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• And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Memories, Past, Light

  Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.113, Penguin

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• Besides, I'd seen a really nice pair of shoes yesterday in the mall and I wanted them for my own. I can't describe the feeling of immediate familiarity that rushed between us. The moment I clapped eyes on them I felt like I already owned them. I could only suppose that we were together in a former life. That they were my shoes when I was a serving maid in medieval Britain or when I was a princess in ancient Egypt. Or perhaps they were the princess and I was the shoes. Who's to know? Either way I knew that we were meant to be together.

  Marian Keyes

  Nice, Princess, Eye

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• There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about yourself. Your connection to your former life is like a dream or delirium, and that person who you once were is merely a fond acquaintance, or a beloved character from a storybook. This is how memory becomes nostalgia. They are two very different things - the same way that a person is different from a photograph of a person.

  Dan Chaon

  Love, Dream, Memories

  "Stay Awake". Book by Dan Chaon, February 7, 2012.

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• We all return. It is this certainty that gives meaning to life and it does not make the slightest difference whether or not in a later incarnation we remember the former life. What counts is not the individual and his comfort, but the great aspiration to the perfect and the pure which goes on in each incarnation.

  Gustav Mahler

  Differences, Giving, Perfect

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• He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life.

  Milan Kundera

  Lying, Bed, Former

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.

  Harvey Mackay

  Change, Dream, Feet

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