Our Past Quotes - Page 9

• Forgive yourself first. Release the need to replay a negative situation over and over again in your mind. Don’t become a hostage to your past by always reviewing and reliving your mistakes. Don’t remind yourself of what should have, could have or would have been. Release it and let it go. Move on.

  Les Brown

  Mistake, Moving, Past

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• We are all prisoners of our past. It is hard to think of things except in the way we have always thought of them. But that solves no problems and seldom changes anything.

  Charles Handy

  Past, Thinking, Way

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• Living in the present moment requires discretion toward memory. Without memory we'd have amnesia. What good would there be in that? Offer discretion and discernment for our past with a broad spectrum of forgiveness. As for our present moment, delight. And dedication to remain fully present to all the possibility.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Memories, Dedication, Past

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• It's not our past which most determines the possibilities open to us, it's what we choose here and now to make happen in our present and future.

  Nick Baylis

  Past, Possibility, Here And Now

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• Your past forms you, whether you like it or not.  Each encounter and experience has its own effect, and you're shaped the way the wind shapes a mesquite tree on a plain.

  Lance Armstrong

  Past, Wind, Tree

  Lance Armstrong (2012). “It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life”, p.14, Random House

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• We also want to invest in the next generation of filmmakers. There have been hundreds of these filmmakers that have called us saying "Can we intern with you? Can we mentor under you?" And we want an opportunity to do that, as well. So, for those two reasons, we talked with our pastor and he gave us his blessing to kind of launch out and grow the movie ministry that we have.

  Alex Kendrick

  Blessing, Opportunity, Two

  "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 2013.

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• We see images of people being beheaded on TV. That's not a thing that you see all the time. That's a different kind of scary. Unfortunately, some of the scary stuff is political, and that's a change from our past.

  Denis O'Hare

  Past, People, Scary

  Source: collider.com

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• When you hear voices from your past, do not close your ears, listen to them, but don't stop, keep walking to the future.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Past, Voice, Ears

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• You cannot escape from your past! But you can understand it! And once you understand it, you don't have to escape from it any longer! Understanding liberates you!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Past, Understanding, Your Past

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• Your past is always useful to you: If you are happy with your past, you get power from it; if you are unhappy with your past, you take lesson from it!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Past, Unhappy, Lessons

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• We should probably all pause to confront our past from time to time, because it changes its meaning as our circumstances alter.

  Karen Armstrong

  Past, Should, Circumstances

  Karen Armstrong (2010). “The Spiral Staircase”, p.20, Vintage Canada

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• Every lesson you take from your past immediately turns into a stairs to the light!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Past, Light, Lessons

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• Don't swear at your past; you couldn't existed without it! It is the only path to reach today and tomorrow! Remember that past is a great teacher who thought us all we know now!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Teacher, Past, Today And Tomorrow

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• Don't ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.

  John Piper

  Mean, Past, Thinking

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• When you change your NOW story, you instantly change your past story and your future story.

  Robert G. Allen

  Past, Stories, Your Future

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• I believe everything negative that happens in your life is for a positive reason. If your heart breaks, you know that you are a human being and it happens. But you can't mope over it. There's only one life. You better get on ahead and fast. Fast enough not to let your past ever catch up with you.

  Bipasha Basu

  Believe, Heart, Past

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• The mental game of business is understanding this Paradox: the better you think you are doing, the greater should be your cause for concern: the more self-satisfied you are with your accomplishments, your past achievements, your 'right moves', the less you should be.

  Mark McCormack

  Moving, Past, Thinking

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• You must let go of your past and embrace your future and figure out what path you're going to go down

  George Lucas

  Letting Go, Past, Path

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• I'm driven by history and our past. That's why I work in gold. It's in your veins. We've been lusting after gold since the beginning of time. God, glory, and gold.

  Waris Ahluwalia

  Past, Lust, Gold

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• Be happy. Decide to be happy. If you want to be happy, be happy! No one cares if you're happy or not, so why wait for permission? And did it really matter if you had been deeply unhappy in your past? Who but you remembered that?

  Amity Gaige

  Past, Waiting, Unhappy

  Amity Gaige (2013). “Schroder”, p.20, Faber & Faber

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• It may be possible to forget our past but our past is not going to forget us.

  Francesca Marciano

  Past, May, Forget

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• Your only competitors are your past achievements.

  James Cameron

  Past, Achievement, Competitors

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• We stand together as we did two centuries ago, One people under God determined that our future shall be worthy of our past.

  Ronald Reagan

  Past, Two, People

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 1985, Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington D.C.

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• I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.

  Cesar Pelli

  Strong, Moving, Past

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• Our past as well as our future. It could have been completely destroyed when we were brought to the New World as slaves. They even took away our drums. And I don't want to talk about all those negative things going on. But its music is more present in our lives than ever. Blues, samba, calypso, reggae, jazz, salsa, Africa is everywhere.

  Randy Weston

  Past, Negative, World

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