Our Past Quotes - Page 8

• Until you're willing to accept what already is - the things of your past that you can't change - there's no space for you to create what you want. Acceptance is the key to unlocking the door to true peace, happiness, and freedom.

  Hal Elrod

  Gratitude, Acceptance, Past

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from May 09, 2011

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• The narrative that each person tells herself and others is a big part of how we construct our self-identities. It's one of the most important ways that we make sense of our past and present and understand our hopes for the future.

  Peg O'Connor

  Past, Self, Identity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• God's never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.

  Bob Goff

  Past, Nervous, Our Future

  Twitter post from May 11, 2015

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• Men will judge your past deeds by your last.

  Publilius Syrus

  Past, Men, Judging

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• The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.

  Cesare Pavese

  Past, Skills, Effort

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.318, Transaction Publishers

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• It is sometimes said that because of our past we, as a people, expect too much and set our sights too high. That is not the way I see it. Rather it seems to me that throughout my life in politics our ambitions have steadily shrunk. Our response to disappointment has not been to lengthen our stride but to shorten the distance to be covered. But with confidence in ourselves and in our future what a nation we could be!

  Margaret Thatcher

  Disappointment, Distance, Ambition

  The Lady's Not For Turning, delivered 10 October 1980, Conservative Party Conference, Brighton

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• While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Past, Mirrors, Too Much

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1221, Delphi Classics

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• Because we have sought to cover up past evil, though it still persists, we have been powerless to check the new evil of today.Evil unchecked grows, Evil tolerated poisons the whole system. And because we have tolerated our past and present evils, international affairs are poisoned and law and justice have disappeared from them.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Past, Law, Evil

  Jawaharlal Nehru, M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, Bal Ram Nanda (1972). “Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal”

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• Hello my Country I once came to tell everyone your story Your passion was my poetry And your past my most potent glory Your promise was my prayer Your hypocrisy my nightmare And your problems fill my present Are we both going somewhere?

  Harry Chapin

  Country, Prayer, Passion

  Song: There Only Was One Choice, Album: Dance Band on the Titanic, 1977

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• You see, I have no real complaints of how you've left your past behind I guess what gets me worried is you've erased him from your mind.

  Harry Chapin

  Real, Past, Mind

  Song: I Wonder What Happened to Him, Album: Dance Band on the Titanic, 1977

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• We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now.

  David Richo

  Believe, Past, Thinking

  David Richo (2008). “When the Past Is Present: Healing the Emotional Wounds that Sabotage our Relationships”, p.40, Shambhala Publications

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• You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

  Phillips Brooks

  Letting Go, Past, Way

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

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• Our most merciless enemy is our past.

  Maxim Gorky

  Past, Enemy

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• The karma of immediate availability is the condition of your awareness field. The karma of potentiality is what is stored inside you from your past lives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Past, Availability

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• By practicing Buddhist Yoga, you can become happy, ecstatic and free in your current incarnation, even if you have never been that way before in any of your past lives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Buddhist, Yoga

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• You look at your past and things that are unresolved and figure out what you need to do to move forward and fill a role with your family and in your community.

  Greg Bryk

  Moving, Past, Community

  Source: collider.com

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• It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure

  Martial

  Past, Looks, Able

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• At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Character, Past, Years

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Future, Past, Habit

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• I mean, when you've had a problem in your past, whether it's attributed directly to high cholesterol or not, you want to lower your cholesterol. You want to eat healthy. You want to feel healthy. You want to have a little more energy.

  Mike Ditka

  Sports, Mean, Past

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• With us the inner nature accords with the outer expectation. The body follows the mind, and the mind seeks the soul, which it strives toward but has not yet won. With you it is otherwise. The mind follows the body in pursuit of the soul you have been told you already have. Because you cannot find it, you assume you have lost it somewhere in your past, and this keeps you from achieving it in your future.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Past, Expectations, Soul

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• Never carry the baggage of your past relationships on the honeymoon of your future relationships.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Past, Baggage, Honeymoon

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• In the Eleusinian mysteries, they would always warn people, "if you go in here, your ego will die. You're going to have to confront all your past hang-ups, strip them off, and be a changed person." One emperor of Rom who wanted to be initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries said, "That's interesting, I approve of what you're doing, but I don't want to be changed.

  Timothy Leary

  Past, People, Interesting

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.84, Ronin Publishing

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• Fascism was part of the absolute evil. (...) We have to denounce the ashaming pages in the history of our past. (...) There included all the pages related to the discrimination and the persecution of jews and, more in general, of minoritires. And therefore that one [The Italian Social Republic of Salò] is also included.

  Gianfranco Fini

  Italian, Past, Evil

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• I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.

  Brennan Manning

  Prayer, Love You, Past

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