Past Experiences Quotes

• Our past experiences may have made us the way we are, but we don't have to stay that way.

  Joyce Meyer

  Change, Past, Self

  Twitter post from May 2, 2012

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• Never limit your view of life by any past experience.

  Ernest Holmes

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

  Ernest Holmes (1998). “The Science of Mind: The Definitive Edition”, p.187, Penguin

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• Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Life, Positive

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1844.

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• Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

  Jean Plaidy

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

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• If you don't cherish past experiences, you cannot learn from them and you cannot move on.

  Hannah Peel

  Moving, Past, Cherish

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.

  Louise Hay

  Past, Forgiving, Forgive Yourself

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Mar 28, 2016

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• Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspirational, Leadership, Summer

  "Heads and Tales". Book by Malvina Hoffman, p. 47, 1936.

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• Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that's of no use to the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. It's always new.

  Paulo Coelho

  Grateful, Past, New Experiences

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

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• Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.

  Alfred Sheinwold

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Your past experiences will flavour your future ones, that is human nature.

  Deborah

  Past, Human Nature, Your Future

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• It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Past, Years, Judging

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 31: Sermons 1816-1876”, p.101, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Past, Firsts, Study

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• Life can only be understood backwards.

  Mackenzie Astin

  Short Life, Moving Forward, Reflection

  "Fictional character: David Shrader". Dream for an Insomniac, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• Past experience told me he could smell my fear; it also told me that the anger accompanying it would pretty much cover the scent. It's good to know how to compensate for your own weaknesses.​

  Mira Grant

  Past, Smell, Weakness

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• Lyrically I write based on my past experiences or things I wish to experience. Pain inspires me as does joy.

  Adam Anderson

  Pain, Writing, Past

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• Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.

  Zainab Salbi

  Past, Silence, Leader

  "An In-Depth Interview With Zainab Salbi, Founder and CEO of Women for Women International". Interview with Rahim Kanani, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2011.

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• Sometimes you're wrong, but if I'm a repeat customer, it means I must have valued the past experiences.

  Willem Dafoe

  Mean, Past, Sometimes

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Power is knowing your past.

  Spike Lee

  Past, Knowing, Experience

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• Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Past, Mind, Asana

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.57, Rodale

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• Great champions learn from past experiences, whether those be good or bad. A lot of times a guy needs to be knocked down before he gets up and fights.

  Paul Azinger

  Fighting, Golf, Past

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• She should have remembered her past experiences in the relationship wars and not let herself get so excited. Evidently her hormones had overruled her common sense and she had become drunk on ovarian wine, the most potent, sanity- destroying substance in the universe.

  Linda Howard

  War, Wine, Past

  Linda Howard (2012). “Mr Perfect”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include every influence of past experience on present reactions.

  Bertrand Russell

  Memories, Science, Past

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.285, Psychology Press

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• The mathematician of to-day admits that he can neither square the circle, duplicate the cube or trisect the angle. May not our mechanicians, in like manner, be ultimately forced to admit that aerial flight is one of that great class of problems with which men can never cope... I do not claim that this is a necessary conclusion from any past experience. But I do think that success must await progress of a different kind from that of invention.

  Simon Newcomb

  Airplane, Past, Men

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• A learning machine is any device whose actions are influenced by past experience.

  Nils John Nilsson

  Past, Machines, Action

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