Our Past Quotes - Page 11

• Your past experiences will flavour your future ones, that is human nature.

  Deborah

  Past, Human Nature, Your Future

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• ... negative feelings are not true feelings at all; rather, they are your thoughts about something, based always on the previous experience of yourself and others. You will not find Truth in your past data, only past data that is based on other past data that is based on other past data, and so forth. Forget your "past experience" and look directly at the experience you are having. Right Here, Right Now. There is your Truth.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Truth, Past, Data

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Sep 22, 2014

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• You can wreck your future running from your past.

  T. D. Jakes

  Running, Past, Wrecks

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• The law of karma is neither fatalistic nor punitive; nor is man a hapless, helpless victim in its bonds. God has blessed each one of us with reason, intellect and discrimination, as well as the sovereign free will. Even when our past karma inclines us toward evil, we can consciously tune our inclination towards detachment and ego-free action, thus lightening the karmic load.

  Dada Vaswani

  Karma, Blessed, Past

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• Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past.

  Malcolm X

  Struggle, Past, Culture

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Loss, Past, Honor

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• Our past cannot be changed, and to be preoccupied with it is inefficient in time and effort. Likewise, by fretting over the future, we only exhaust ourselves, making us less able to effectively respond when the future is actually upon us. By worrying about a mishap that may or may not take place, we're forced to undergo the event twice-once when imagining it and once again if and when we actually experience it.

  H. E Davey

  Past, Ifs And, Worry

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• We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

  William James

  Past, Self, Habit

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.48, Harvard University Press

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• For all the injustices in our past and our present, we have to believe that in the free exchange of ideas, justice will prevail over injustice, tolerance over intolerance and progress over reaction.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Past, Ideas

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• You know the worst: your wills are fickle,
  Your values blurred, your hearts impure
  And your past life a ruined church--
  But let your poison be your cure.

  Louis MacNeice

  Suicide, Heart, Past

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.3, Faber & Faber

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• If the devil starts bringing up your past it's because he's running out of new material!

  Jentezen Franklin

  Running, Past, Devil

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• A powerful motivation for believing God in our present is intentionally remembering how He's worked in our past.

  Beth Moore

  Motivation, Powerful, Believe

  Beth Moore (2004). “Believing God”, p.176, B&H Publishing Group

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• God never consults your past to make your future.

  Christine Caine

  Past, Your Future, Your Past

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• I guess no matter how hard you try, you can't escape your past.

  Joel Osteen

  Past, Trying, Matter

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• ... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens--if we are unaware that women even have a history--we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.

  Adrienne Rich

  Philosophy, Past, Wind

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.95, W. W. Norton & Company

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• People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.

  Norman Mailer

  Military, War, Moving

  Norman Mailer (1972). “Existential errands”, Signet

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• To have any kind of a future you've got to give up hope of ever changing your past.

  M. L. Stedman

  Giving Up, Past, Kind

  M.L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans: A Novel”, p.396, Simon and Schuster

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• When we reflect on our past sentiments and affections, our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects truly; but the colours which it employs are faint and dull, in comparison of those in which our original perceptions were clothed.

  David Hume

  Past, Mirrors, Faithful

  David Hume, Eric Steinberg (1992). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature”, p.10, Hackett Publishing

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• In one generation of silent neglect, we have allowed the revisionists of our history to rewrite our past and deny that we have a Christian heritage.

  Rick Scarborough

  Christian, Religious, Past

  Rick Scarborough (2008). “Enough is Enough”, p.40, Frontline

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• If we want a new future that does not look like our past, we must make new choices in the present.

  Debbie Ford

  Past, Choices, Looks

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• My top priority in any trade negotiation is expanding opportunity for hardworking Americans. It's no secret that past trade deals haven't always lived up to their promise, and that's why I will only sign my name to an agreement that helps ordinary Americans get ahead, the bill put forward today would help us write those rules in a way that avoids the mistakes from our past, seizes opportunities for our future and stays true to our values.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Writing, Past

  "Lawmakers clear path for Obama's historic trade deal" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. April 30, 2015.

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• Neverland is a place where you don't grow up, then you have to confront your past.

  Edward Kitsis

  Growing Up, Past, Neverland

  Source: collider.com

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• The Lord loves us so much that He suffered for us on the Cross; and His suffering was so great that we can't comprehend it. In the same way our spiritual pastors suffer for us, although we often don't see their suffering. The greater the love of the pastor, the greater his suffering; and we, the sheep, should understand this, and love and honor our pastors.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Spiritual

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• If your doctor has warned you to avoid excitement, do not turn to exploring your past lives as a soothing and sedentary occupation.

  Herbie Brennan

  Healing, Past, Doctors

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• Because you are obsessed with the idea of past, present, and future, you are forced to think of reincarnations as strung out one before the other. Indeed we speak of past lives because you are used to the time sequence concept... You have dominant egos, all part of an inner identity, dominant in various existences. But the separate existences exist simultaneously. Only the egos involved make the time distinction... a thousand years in your past or in your future - all exist now.

  Jane Roberts

  Healing, Past, Thinking

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