Our Past Quotes - Page 14

• When something goes wrong, what's the best course of action? To change your direction. The word repentance means to stop going one direction (your own way) and turn toward the right direction (God's way). Your past may be a part of who you are, but it certainly doesn't have to define your future. Or if you feel stuck and unable to change directions and move toward God, think of this transformation another way. The Bible says that God is the Potter and we are his clay (Jer. 18:2-6).

  Craig Groeschel

  Moving, Mean, Thinking

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• There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.

  Eleanor Brown

  Past, Stories, Realizing

  Eleanor Brown (2011). “The Weird Sisters”, p.337, Penguin

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• Whatever your circumstances, whatever your past, the forces that determine your future are nowhere but within your own heart and mind. It is here that the star of your destiny shines.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Stars, Heart, Past

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• The silver friend knows your present and the gold friend knows all of your past dirt and glories. Once in a blue moon there is someone who knows it all, someone who knows and accepts you unconditionally, someone who is there for life.

  Jill McCorkle

  Past, Moon, Blue

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• You give up your future, lose your dreams, are stained with despair . . . Yet at the same time you shake off your past, fight reality, and never lose your nobility.

  SebastiAn

  Dream, Giving Up, Fighting

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• As exciting, difficult, and memorable as our past can be, there comes a time when we have to get on with living.

  Patrick Carman

  Memorable, Past, There Comes A Time

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• If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Mean, Past, Want

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• Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Nature, Animal, Past

  Terry Tempest Williams (2008). “Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert”, p.76, Vintage

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• But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Past, Forgiving, Looks

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• When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.

  T. D. Jakes

  Hurt, Past, Air

  T. D. Jakes (2013). “Are You Ready?: Nothing But the Blood of Jesus”, p.48, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Meteorologists have the right perspective. They ground themselves in the current conditions (today’s highs/lows). They briefly acknowledge significant events of the past (record temps). And they keep an eye on the future (five-day forecast). Honor your past accomplishments, live in the present moment, and look to the future.

  Clifton Anderson

  Eye, Past, Accomplishment

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• When you are caught in the mind, your past defines you. When you are present, you are beyond definition.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Past, Mind, Definitions

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• It’s important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.

  Richey Edwards

  Past, Important, Contradiction

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• Some things can’t be ignored. You can only conquer your past if you choose to face it.

  Linda Wisdom

  Past, Faces, Ignored

  Linda Wisdom (2008). “50 Ways to Hex Your Lover”, p.124, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Your past may not be perfect, but it was perfect for your purpose.

  Bo Sanchez

  Past, May Not Be Perfect, Purpose

  BO SANCHEZ “You’re Weird: (In a Wonderful Way)”, Shepherds Voice Publications, Inc.

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• The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Past, Substance, May

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• My house says to me, "do not leave me, for here dwells your past." And the road says to me, "Come and follow me, for I am your future." And I say to both my house and the road, "I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in my staying; and if I go there is a staying in my going. Only love and death change all things."

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Future, Past

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• When we find inspiration, we need to take action for ourselves and for our communities. Even if it means making a hard choice, or cutting out something and leaving it in your past.

  Aron Ralston

  Inspiration, Mean, Cutting

  Aron Ralston (2010). “127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep
  seeking reality though in fact we are reality. We
  think that there is something hiding reality and that
  this must be destroyed before reality is gained.
  How ridiculous! A day will dawn when you will laugh
  ... at all your past efforts. That which will be the day
  you laugh is also here and now.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Past, Reality, Thinking

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• The Blood of Jesus washes away our past and the Name of Jesus opens up our future.

  Jesse Duplantis

  Jesus, Past, Blood

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• By approaching everything with a sense of suspicion and struggle, we like to think we're in control of things. But in truth our past karma is simply playing itself out. Instead of struggling with it, however, we can choose to dance.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Karma, Dance, Truth

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  You can't master your future if you're still a slave to your past.

  Rihanna

  Past, Slave, Masters

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• Baptism was to put a line of demarcation between your past sins when you are buried with Him by Baptism-you are burying your past sins-eradicating them-putting a line in the sand saying that old man is dead and he is no longer alive any more and I rise up to walk in the newness of life.

  T. D. Jakes

  Past, Men, Baptism

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• Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites that has not yet been achieved in reality...Preferences tend to attack one form of discrimination with another...Affirmative action encourages a victim-focused identity, and sends the message that there is more power in our past suffering than in our present achievements.

  Shelby Steele

  Past, Reality, Giving

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• Any judgment is past oriented, and existence is always herenow, life is always herenow. All judgments are coming from your past experiences, your education, your religion, your parents - which may be dead, but their judgments are being carried by your mind and they will be given as a heritage to your children. Generation after generation, every disease is being transferred as a heritage. Only a non-judgmental mind has intelligence, because it is spontaneously responding to reality.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Past, Reality

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