Our Past Quotes - Page 21

• Your past determines your future unless you’re clearly moving past your self and responding to what you know in your heart.

  John de Ruiter

  Moving, Heart, Past

  "No Longer Determined by Your Past". Interview, johnderuiter.com. July 1, 2014.

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• Ghosts seem harder to please than we are; it is as though they haunted for haunting’s sake -- much as we relive, brood, and smoulder over our pasts.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Past, Haunting, Sake

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• I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Islamic, Past, People

  Message to the Nation on the occasion of the first Anniversary of Pakistan, August 14, 1948.

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• Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about.

  Bill Whittle

  Book, Past, Hammers

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• You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.

  Ann Brashares

  Past, Remember, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Feb 15, 2013

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• You can be happy if you are willing to let go of your past and leave yourself unencumbered so you can fly freely.

  Chris Prentiss

  Letting Go, Past, Willing

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.40, BookBaby

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• A strong plan of action will yield you quantum results and will ensure that you don’t fall into the familiar patterns of your past.

  Debbie Ford

  Strong, Fall, Past

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• You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories.

  Deborah Moggach

  Sister, Memories, Sibling

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• How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

  David Wilkerson

  Past, Christian Inspirational, Miracle

  David Wilkerson (2012). “God Is Faithful: A Daily Invitation into the Father Heart of God”, p.247, Baker Books

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• In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

  Blaise Pascal

  Past, Decision, Looks

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.168, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Past, Anchors, Literature

  "'Why Not Have Our Own World?' Interview with Andrzej Wajda". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. 2005.

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• Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it's a regret, maybe it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it.

  Pittacus Lore

  Inspirational, Life, Regret

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• To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

  Charles J. Givens

  Motivational, Death, Letting Go

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• What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.

  John Hodgman

  Past, Museums, Amusing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

  Stephen Covey

  Change, Responsibility, Animal

  "CNN Live On Location", www.cnn.com. January 9, 2003.

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• We can develop a social vaccine (Self-esteem). We can outgrow our past failures - our lives of crime and violence, alcohol and drug abuse, premature pregnancy, child abuse, chronic dependency on welfare, and education failure.

  John Vasconcellos

  Children, Self Esteem, Pregnancy

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• I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a second. It's very instinctive. What you do is a fraction of a second, it's there and it's not there. But in this fraction of a second comes your past, comes your future, comes your relation with people, comes your ideology, comes your hate, comes your love - all together in this fraction of a second, it materializes there.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Hate, Past

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• Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Past

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you

  Kendrick Lamar

  Rap, Past, Evil

  Song: The Art of Peer Pressure, Album: good kid, m.A.A.d city, 2012

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• Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.

  Saint Augustine

  Past, Medicine, Suffering

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• I know you left me once, but I came right back to find you. Even though I like being in your past, you got a bright future behind you.

  Drake

  Past, Behind You, You Left Me

  Song: Celebration, Album: More Than Enough

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• It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.

  Joyce Meyer

  Past, Important

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• How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?

  John Steinbeck

  Past, Wrath, Knows

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.70, Hamilton Books

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• In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.

  Brennan Manning

  Healing, Past, Light

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