Our Past Quotes - Page 16

• It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future.

  Robert Plant

  Past, Quoting, Pointing

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• At times it may seem as though you and your past are one. Sometimes we fail to differentiate between what has happened to us and who we are today. If you have a hard time getting beyond that damaging mind-set let me encourage you right now. You are not your past Although you are changed and shaped by past experiences who you were yesterday does not control the person you have the potential to become tomorrow.

  Sue Augustine

  Hard Times, Past, Yesterday

  Sue Augustine (2005). “When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present: Getting Beyond Fears That Hold You Back”, p.18, Harvest House Publishers

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• Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.

  Paul Wellstone

  Dream, Past, Mirrors

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• We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal his soul, we identify our secrets, our past and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less of oneself.

  Dave Eggers

  Loss, Past, Soul

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• The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

  Barack Obama

  Past, Clouds, Views

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, p.434, Broadway Books

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• The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Eye, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.

  Alyson Noel

  Past, Shapes, May

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• The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.

  Steve Martin

  Past, Banjos, Capture

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• Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

  Wallace Stegner

  Summer, Past, Rose

  Wallace Stegner (2000). “Angle of Repose”, p.43, Penguin

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• We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.

  Glen Duncan

  Past, Self, Arguing

  Glen Duncan (2000). “Love remains”

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• We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future.

  Azar Nafisi

  Dream, Country, Past

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.109, Random House

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• True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.

  Peter Diamandis

  Mean, Past, Lines

  "Why Billion-Dollar, 100-Year-Old Companies DIE" by Peter Diamandis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2013.

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• With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle age—are so beautifully revealed here, a trenchant reminder that our pasts are alive inside of us. There are psychologists who can write, and writers who can psychologize, but rarely have the two met on the page with such moving, profound results.

  Dani Shapiro

  Uplifting, Memories, Moving

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• That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.

  Isaac Marion

  Memories, Past, Opposites

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Past, Culture, Path

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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• Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Inspirational, Birthday, Leadership

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• Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. It turns problems into gifts, failures into successes, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. It can turn an existence into a real life, and disconnected situations into important and beneficial lessons. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Gratitude makes things right.

  Melody Beattie

  Gratitude, Mistake, Real

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• My grandmother always used to say, "If you know your past and you know where you have to go, why do you rehearse?" I always remember this and it's true. You have to start each day again-you can't repeat what you did.

  Marian Seldes

  Grandmother, Past, Grandparent

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• It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.

  Farley Mowat

  Past, Darkness

  Farley Mowat (1997). “Aftermath: Travels in a Post-War World”, Roberts Rinehart Pub

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• The government tells us we need flood control and comes to straighten the creek in our pasture. The engineer on the job tells us the creek is now able to carry off more flood water, but in the process we have lost our old willows where the owl hooted on a winter night and under which the cows switched flies in the noon shade. We lost the little marshy spot where our fringed gentians bloomed.

  Aldo Leopold

  Jobs, Winter, Night

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.165, Oxford University Press

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• Perhaps the future of the world would be in better hands if we forgot about discovering something new and concentrated on recovering our past.

  Marlo Morgan

  Past, Hands, Discovering Something New

  Marlo Morgan (1991). “Mutant message down under”, Bookpeople

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• How hard a thing is life to the lowly and yet how human and real is it? And all this life and love and strife and failure, - is it the twilight of nightfall or the flush of some faint-dawning day? The answer lies in each of us. For somewhere in your past ... somewhere some 100 years ago?there rose from the smoldering ashes of slavery?a proud and humble family who suffered and struggled with life. A family who found the strength to endure all the indignities of life in America, and that family had the hope for a taste of her bounties in the future.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Life And Love, Lying, Real

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• Get bored with your past, it's over!

  Caroline Myss

  Past, Bored, Your Past

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• Your past is your shadow. It has form but no substance, except in the places you allow it to touch you. (

  Tananarive Due

  Past, Shadow, Substance

  Tananarive Due (2008). “Blood Colony: A Novel”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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• We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

  Carl Levin

  Mistake, Past, Choices

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