Our Past Quotes - Page 23

• To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid that release your past. Sweat is an ancient and universal form of self healing, whether done in the gym, the sauna, or the sweat lodge. I do it on the dance floor. The more you dance, the more you sweat. The more you sweat, the more you pray. The more you pray, the closer you come to ecstasy.

  Gabrielle

  Prayer, Healing, Past

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• Every event has a purpose and every setback a lesson. Failure is essential to personal expansion. It brings inner growth and a whole host of psychic rewards. Never regret your past. Rather embrace it as the teacher it is.

  Robin S

  Teacher, Regret, Past

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• You're so ashamed of your past; drop it! You're so proud of your past; drop it!

  Anthony de Mello

  Past, Proud, Ashamed

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• Shock equals discovery, and if I narrated my past, you'd be pretty grossed out too, I bet - same as if you narrated yours. Aren't we all composed of our past mistakes? Isn't that part of emerging into an adult awareness of the world?

  D. T. Max

  Mistake, Past, Discovery

  Interview with Samuel Cohen, logger.believermag.com. September 11, 2012.

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• In Africa I discovered what the true purpose of a musician is. We are historians, and it is our purpose to tell the people the true story of our past, and to extend a better vision of the future.

  Randy Weston

  Past, Visions Of The Future, People

  Randy Weston, Willard Jenkins (2015). “African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston”, p.298, Duke University Press

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• God is able to take the mess of our past and turn it into a message. He takes the trials and tests and turns them into a testimony.

  Christine Caine

  Past, Able, Messages

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Dec 28, 2015

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• The mindless junk of your past crowds out opportunities and sets pointless limitations. Move out the junk, and you create room for the rest of your life. Ultimately, it's not just a question of tidying your house; it's a question of liberating your heart.

  Merlin Mann

  Success, Moving, Heart

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• Our past can control today and tomorrow only to the degree we allow it. The past should not be a place where we dwell but a place from which we learn all we can and then move on.

  Sue Augustine

  Moving, Past, Degrees

  Sue Augustine (2005). “When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present: Getting Beyond Fears That Hold You Back”, p.45, Harvest House Publishers

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• If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Past, Remember, Forget

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• What would happen if history could be rewritten as casually as erasing a blackboard? Our past would be like the shifting sands at the seashore, constantly blown this way or that by the slightest breeze. History would be constantly changing every time someone spun the dial of a time machine and blundered his or her way into the past. History, as we know it, would be impossible. It would cease to exist.

  Michio Kaku

  Past, Machines, Way

  Michio Kaku (1995). “Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension”, p.235, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle of minority citizens for equal rights, once a source of disunity and civil war, is now a point of pride for all Americans. We must never go back. There is no room for racism, anti-Semitism, or other forms of ethnic and racial hatred in this country.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, War, Struggle

  Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

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• Many have forgotten what we came here for,
  Never knew or had a clue, so you're on the floor.
  Just growin' not known' about your past...
  Now you're lookin' pretty stupid while you're shakin' your ass.

  Chuck D

  Stupid, Rap, Past

  Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

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• We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.

  Saint Augustine

  Mistake, Past, Needs

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• I wrote lots of scripts that never got made and they were terrible. I thought they were good at the time. You can't write two scripts and expect your career to take off. Keep writing. Be you. Be original. A lot of people go for a genre, which is fine if you can do that really well, but we all have such layered histories. We all come from a unique background. Write about your past, write about you. Or make stuff up, but make it about something that really matters.

  Nicole Holofcener

  Writing, Unique, Past

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Memories, Past, Feelings

  "Olga Kurylenko Talks OBLIVION, Flying the Bubbleship, How Her Bond Experience Helped Her with Action, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 13, 2013.

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• To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Past, Self, Bridges

  Richard Paul Evans (2015). “Walking on Water: A Novel”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• Our past has gone into history.

  William McKinley

  Past, Gone

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• We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspiring, Travel, Jobs

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• To move out of the patterns of our past and create the future we want we must pass through the gateway of the present

  David Schlussel

  Moving, Past, Patterns

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• For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.

  Gary Hamel

  Past, Imagination, Firsts

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• You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Mistake, Past

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• You exist in time: future, present, and past. This is manifest in life, liberty, and the product of your life and liberty. The exercise of choices over life and liberty is your prosperity. To lose your life is to lose your future. To lose your liberty is to lose your present. And to lose the product of your life and liberty is to lose the portion of your past that produced it.

  Ken Schoolland

  Life, Future, Exercise

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• So time over time what will change the world, no one knows? The only promise is a day to live, to give and share with one another.
 See the wisdom from mistakes in our past; the promise of a new day.


  Paula Abdul

  Mistake, Past, Giving

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  No matter how dirty your past is, your future is still spotless.

  Drake

  Dirty, Past, Matter

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• Pain is a spiritual wake-up call showing you that there are oceans you have not yet explored. Step beyond the world you know. Reach for heights that you never thought possible. Go to places you have deemed off limits. This is the time to take off the shell of your past and step into the rich possibilities of your future. God does not give us dreams that we cannot fulfill. If you want to do something great with your life-whether it's to fall madly in love, become a teacher, be a great parent-if you aspire to do something beyond what you are doing now, this is the time to begin. Trust yourself.

  Debbie Ford

  Dream, Spiritual, Teacher

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