Our Past Quotes

• In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

  Alex Haley

  Inspirational, Family, Meaningful

  "Traits of a Healthy Family" by Dolores Curran, (p. 199), 1985.

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• We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wise, Wisdom, Future

  George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.315, 1st World Publishing

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• Today is a new day. Your future does not equal your past.

  Michael Hyatt

  Past, New Day, Doe

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• Keep your life in a positive perspective. We are not defined by our pasts

  Ray J

  Past, Perspective, Defined

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• Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.

  Joyce Meyer

  Past, Suffering, Use

  Joyce Meyer (2008). “The Power of Being Positive: Enjoying God Forever”, p.19, Hachette UK

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  Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Broken Heart, Forgiveness, Heartbroken

  "Healing by Degrees" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2014.

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• You are not defined by your past. You are prepared by your past.

  Joel Osteen

  Letting Go, Past, Prepared

  Twitter post from Jul 03, 2015

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• Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Time, Real, Healing

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.139, Pan Macmillan

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• May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Wise, Dream, Past

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• Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

  Paul Eldridge

  Past, Bird, Triumph

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• We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

  Rick Warren

  Change, Past, Growth

  Twitter post from Oct 15, 2010

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• Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Memories, Healing

  "Healing by Degrees" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2014.

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• The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

  Wendell Berry

  Inspirational, Wise, Memories

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words”, p.14, Counterpoint Press

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• We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspirational, Change, Happiness

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• We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

  Robin Sharma

  Life, Positive, Time

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.214, Jaico Publishing House

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• If we do not honor our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow.

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser

  Past, Roots, Honor

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• So rather than denying or stuffing your past, go ahead and look at it, but without judgment. Look at it, express it, admit it, acknowledge it, accept it, and move on. In other words, let your past become something that is simply a matter of fact. That's all. Express your disappointment, your regret, your anger, and then LET IT GO! If you don't, you will continue to draw to you the very events that you are still resenting or regretting.

  Lynn Grabhorn

  Disappointment, Regret, Moving

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• You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Aug 14, 2014

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• If you've ever had to recall your past in some way and you open a drawer of old photographs that your parents kept, there are always pictures of you smiling and charming, and then a bunch of people you don't know who they are. Could be aunts, uncles, could be the postman for all you know. Who are these people? Your parents are never in the picture, because they are the ones taking them. So you've got these unrelated images that are disconnected from your memories.

  Gail Zappa

  Uncles, Memories, Aunt

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I write about how I was attracted to stripping because I didn't feel comfortable with my body, for instance, but there could be plenty of not-so-good reasons why I chose to go into journalism, too. Maybe someone had a trauma in childhood and it led them to become a nurse, or a lawyer, but because people stigmatize sex work they try to find a traumatic moment in your past and say, "There!"

  Craig Seymour

  Sex, Writing, Past

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There was a time in our past when one could walk down any street and be surrounded by harmonious buildings. Such a street wasn't perfect, it wasn't necessarily even pretty, but it was alive. The old buildings smiled, while our new buildings are faceless. The old buildings sang, while the buildings of our age have no music in them.

  Jonathan Hale

  Philosophical, Past, Old Buildings

  Jonathan Hale (1994). “The Old Way of Seeing”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people. But until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Past, Old Wounds, People

  Iyanla Vanzant (1995). “Interiors: A Black Woman's Healing--in Progress”, Writers & Readers

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• The least livable life is the one without coherence-nothing connects, nothing means anything. Stories make connections. They allow us to see our past, our present, and our future as interrelated and purposeful.... The stories we value most reassure us that life is worth the pain, that meaning is not an illusion, and that others share our experience with us.

  Daniel Taylor

  Pain, Mean, Past

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• Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past.

  William Finnegan

  Memories, Past, Ends

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Make peace with your past - so it won't spoil the present!

  Denise Austin

  Inspirational, Peace, Past

  FaceBook post by Denise Austin from Jan 20, 2012

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