Our Past Quotes - Page 6

• There's a grip we sometimes some of us get on our pain and suffering and our past and our wounding that we over-identify with it. If we laugh at it, we're saying, "Oh, I'm laughing at myself, which means my victimhood isn't all of who I am."

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Pain, Mean, Past

  Source: www.psychologyart.com

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• The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

  Dan Brown

  Past, Decision, Architect

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.42, Knopf

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• I believe in any kind of personal growth practice that can help you gather the tools that you can then apply to resentment, anger, pain, and rage in order to heal your past resentments toward yourself and others, and then deal with them in the moment so you don't carry them for a decade or more.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Pain, Believe, Past

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• Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.  Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it than a picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.  You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.

  Guy Finley

  Moving, Past, Reality

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• Never erase your past. It shapes who you are today and will help you to be the person you'll be tomorrow.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Past, Today, Shapes

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• That's my sole purpose in life is to sit here today and tell you that you can do this, in any life. You can do this in one of your past lives, in a future life, or right now. I prefer now.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, Purpose

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• Don't resurrect relationships with negative people off of good memories. You will only remind yourself why they became your past in the first place.

  Keshia Chante

  Memories, Past, People

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• The key to changing our past, present, and future is to create our piece of the PIE (our Perceptions, Interpretations, & Expectations) on purpose.

  Bill Crawford

  Past, Keys, Pie

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• Our past is a novel that we are constantly revising.

  Eric G. Wilson

  Past, Novel, Revising

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• Passion has determined our past. Attitude will determine our future.

  Paul McGinley

  Attitude, Passion, Past

  "Paul McGinley's inspirational messages; Westwood passes Ballesteros on points list". www.foxnews.com. September 27, 2014.

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• Your past is not your potential.

  Harvey Mackay

  Past, Full Potential, Human Potential

  FaceBook post by Harvey Mackay from May 29, 2012

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• It's as if all your past is written on the blackboard, and if we could erase it, your past would no longer exist. The way you do that - the only way you do that - is in samadhi.

  Frederick Lenz

  Past, Way, Samadhi

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• Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can affect us. We live in the relative world of time and space.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Past

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• If you became grateful, right now, for everything that ever happened in your past, how would that impact your view of the future?

  Eric Edmeades

  Motivational, Grateful, Past

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• History does influence our lives - every moment. We never sort of live our lives in a linear fashion. We always have these memories and these images from our past that sometimes were not even aware of, and they sort of shape who we are.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Fashion, Memories, Past

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• We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

  Robert Jackson Bennett

  Past, Wish

  Robert Jackson Bennett (2014). “City of Stairs”, p.81, Broadway Books

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• Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling memoirs of recent years. Vivid, precise, and utterly honest, How I Shed My Skin is a time-machine of sorts, a reminder that our past is every bit as complex as our present, and that broad cultural changes are often intimate, personal, and idiosyncratic.

  Dinty W. Moore

  School, Past, Self

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• The past has been given to us. The future must be built, as others have built our past.

  Gladys Hasty Carroll

  Future, Past, Given

  Gladys Hasty Carroll (1957). “Sing Out the Glory”

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• Buddhists believe that you are who you are today is because of who you have been in all your past lives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Believe, Past

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• You are not the mistakes of your past, but the resources and capabilities that you have gleaned from your past.

  Jordan Belfort

  Mistake, Past, Resources

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• Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Past, Sculpture, Accepting

  Louise Bourgeois, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (1999). “Louise Bourgeois: memoria y arquitectura : Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 16 de noviembre de 1999-14 de febrero del 2000”, Actar-D

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• ... we are the products of our past. ... a web of complexities.

  Janet Leigh

  Past, Complexity, Products

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• You won't be free from guilt if you are constantly replaying the negative memories of your past. If you're going to replay anything, replay your victories!

  Joel Osteen

  Memories, Past, Victory

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• There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.

  Mike Tyson

  Past, Doors, Want

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• I think we can remember our past without valorizing parts of our past that we ought to see as wrong.

  Russell D. Moore

  Past, Thinking, Remember

  Source: www.pbs.org

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