My Past Quotes - Page 2

• I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Love, Inspirational, Graduation

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Sister, Letting Go, Brother

  Song: Don't You Think?, Album: Left of the Middle, 1997

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• I know what's in my future is greater than what's in my past so I am pressing forward in life.

  Joel Osteen

  Past, Forward In Life, My Future

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• George turned to her. His blue eyes widened. His lovely face took on a forlorn, deeply troubled expression. He leaned forwar, and, in a theatrical whisper, said, 'My past is tragic. I wouldn't want to burden you with it. It's a pain I must suffer alone. In the rain. In silence.

  Ilona Andrews

  Pain, Rain, Eye

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• I had to stop linking every single thing that happened to me with Kennedy. Realization dawned then, that he was still my default. Over the past three years, we’d become each other’s habit. And though he’d broken his habit of me when he walked away, I’d not broken my habit of him. I was still tethering him to my present, to my future. The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I began to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.

  Tammara Webber

  Hurt, Past, Years

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• I couldn't wait to look at someone who shared my genes. I thought my baby was going to provide a decoder key to my past. But then I looked at Pippa and realized, no, she's actually the key to my future.

  Emily Procter

  Baby, Past, Keys

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• I never, ever took you for granted. We met too late for that; I was nearly thirty-three by then, and my past without you was too stark and insistent for me to find the miracle of companionship ordinary.

  Lionel Shriver

  Past, Miracle, Ordinary

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.21, Counterpoint Press

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• My past was a private obstacle, not a public excuse.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Past, Obstacles, Excuse

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Stolen”, p.194, Vintage Canada

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• ...but I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that I emerged victorious.

  Patrick deWitt

  Sleep, Past, Night

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.51, Granta Books

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• I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.

  Sarah Dessen

  Past, World, Headings

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.343, Penguin

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• That letter was your whole future, you daft prince." "It was my past. I lost that the night my parents died. But I found you, Deryn. Maybe I wasn't meant to end the war, but I was meant to find you. I know that. You've saved me from having any reason to keep going." "We save each other. That's how it works.

  Scott Westerfeld

  War, Past, Night

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• I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.

  Joyce Meyer

  Past, My Future, Happened

  Joyce Meyer (2011). “Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You”, p.18, Hachette UK

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• The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.

  Tammara Webber

  Hurt, Past, Accepting

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• It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.

  Lady Gaga

  Beautiful, Artist, Past

  "Lady Gaga is 'interrupted' in 'Marry the night' preview" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. November 17, 2011.

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• Knowing what you need doesn't always mean you know how to get it, though. I'd spent a long time hiding in my cave. No matter how much I might want to come out into the light, I knew it would hurt my eyes. I was a fool. A fool, but nevertheless too smart not to know I was the architect of my own demise, that it was time to put my past behind me. It was time to stop allowing the white elephants to stand unspoken of in my living room.

  Megan Hart

  Hurt, Smart, Mean

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• I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past; reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.

  Isabel Allende

  Past, Reality, Confusion

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• I really don't look at my past and I really don't look too much to the future because I find that's sort of redundant. I really live right in the present. I live right in the now.

  Lorna Luft

  Past, Looks, Too Much

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I know it's an artistic cliche, but every time I look at my past work, I want to projectile vomit.

  Rich Burlew

  Past, Looks, Want

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• I bring my past I bring my future I bring my rights and I bring my song I stand atop the Hacienda and shout We belong Here. We belong.

  Lemn Sissay

  Song, Past, Rights

  Lemn Sissay (2016). “Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems”, p.225, Canongate Books

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• Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.

  Alanis Morissette

  Past, Giving, Bankers

  "New Again: Alanis Morissette". Interview with Elizabeth Weitzman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2015.

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• I am everything I am today, because of my past.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Past, Today

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• Judaism had absolutely nothing to do with my past marriage to Mike [Todd] or my upcoming marriage to Eddie Fisher, both of whom were Jewish. It was something I had wanted to do for a long time.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Past, Long, Judaism

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