Our Past Quotes - Page 17

• Everyone has options. They are a fixed set of predetermined scenarios, points of view, perceived limitations that already reside in your data bank. If you depend on your options to formulate your future, that future will be no more than a rearrangement of your past. Then he says, “Possibilities are completely different. When you ask ‘what is possible?’ you must stretch your imagination out of the confines of the familiar. To live a life beyond the mediocre, ask not ‘what are my options?’ but ‘What is possible?’

  Nicholas Lore

  Past, Views, Data

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• Through salvation our past has been forgiven, our present is given meaning, and out future is secured.

  Rick Warren

  Past, Salvation, Given

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• We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is no art. Cosmopolitanism - a world in which things lose their color and form, and words lose their significance. We love in our past all that we consider native, wonderful and fair.

  Ilya Ehrenburg

  Art, Past, Color

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• Even in a jungle, lovely flowers will spring up here and there, such being the fecundity of nature, and however badly our pastors and masters run our society, however much they pull to pieces that which they claim to be keeping intact, nature remains fecund, human beings are born with human traits, sometimes human strength outweighs human weakness, and human grace shows itself amid human ugliness. ‘In the bloodiest times,’ as our play has it, ‘there are kind people.’

  Eric Bentley

  Running, Spring, Flower

  Eric Bentley (2008). “Bentley on Brecht”, p.200, Northwestern University Press

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• The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again.

  James Earl Jones

  Motivational, Baseball, Army

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• No matter what your past has been, your future is spotless.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Forgiveness, Past, Matter

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• Don't let your past dictate who you are, but let it be part of who you will become.

  Louis Mandylor

  Past, Your Past, Who You Are

  "Fictional character: Nick Portokalos". "My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Nia Vardalos: Toula Portokalos", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Your past comes with you no matter where you go.

  Dale Peck

  Past, Matter, Your Past

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• The Toltec tradition tells us that we surrender a portion of our life force when we dwell on any unhealed wounding event from our past. The unprocessed emotions surrounding these events burden us and weigh heavily on our hearts. They must be dealt with if we want access to all of our vitality. Ultimately, what we will find is that forgiveness is the key to reclaiming all the life force locked in past hurt.

  Debbie Ford

  Hurt, Heart, Past

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• Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.

  T. D. Jakes

  Encouraging, Past, Progress

  Twitter post from Nov 10, 2016

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• The past is a trail you leave behind, much like the wake of a speedboat.  That is, it's a vanishing trail temporarily showing you where you were.  The wake of a boat doesn't affect it's course-obviously it can't since it appears behind the boat.  So consider this image when you exclaim that your past is the reason you aren't moving forward.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Moving On, Moving Forward

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jan 16, 2012

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• No matter what happened to you in your past, you are not your past, you are the resources and the capabilities you glean from it. And that is the basis for all change.

  Jordan Belfort

  Success, Past, Empowering

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Healing requires far more of us than just the participation of our intellectual and even our emotional resources. And it certainly demands that we do more than look backwards at the dead-end archives of our past. Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life.

  Caroline Myss

  Life, Healing, Past

  Caroline Myss (2009). “Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason”, p.16, Hay House, Inc

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• We are a part of everything that is beneath us, above us, and around us. Our past is our present, our present is our future, and our future is seven generations past and present.

  Winona LaDuke

  Past, Environmental, Generations

  Winona LaDuke (1999). “All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life”, p.12, South End Press

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• Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Past, Old Wounds, Heal

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• You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Pain, Memories, Past

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• Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it sweeps away the old myths and becomes the preferred story, one so inclusive that it gathers all the bits of our past and our present into a coherent whole, one that even shines some light into the future so that we can take the next step… If you want to change a society, then you have to tell an alternative story.

  Ivan Illich

  Powerful, Past, Light

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• So much of our future lies in preserving our past.

  Peter Westbrook

  Motivational, Lying, Athlete

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• Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue out future lives will be less afflicted.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Past, Evil, Suffering

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• When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.

  Rick Pitino

  Inspirational, Basketball, Cheating

  "Pitino Sorry for 'Indiscretion,' Gets to Keep His Job" by Mark Mooney, Michael James, abcnews.go.com. August 12, 2009.

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• This is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on. But there is this telling and there is such a thing as passing through.

  Tayari Jones

  Moving, Past, Passing

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• Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of almost anonymous American men who failed. With wit and sympathy, Sandage illuminates the grey world of credit evaluation, a little studied smothering arm of capitalism. This is history as it should be, a work of art exploring the social cost of our past.

  William S. McFeely

  Beautiful, Art, Writing

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• I think I spent all my life in gymnastics. And if you will ask me I want to change something in your past life, no. I will go same.

  Olga Korbut

  Life, Gymnastics, Past

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• Our Pastoral solicitude induces us to earnestly protect and preserve in everything and especially in the sacred rites of the Church the best and old norm.

  Pope Clement VIII

  Church, Sacred, Solicitude

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• Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself then. Everything you did is a part of the process that brought you here. All your past is as alive and real as your so-called 'present.'

  Janet Morris

  Real, Responsibility, Past

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.173, Paradise Publishing

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