Thinking Of The Past Quotes

• The past has no power over the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Positive, Wisdom, Philosophical

  Twitter post from Jun 2, 2014

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• We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

  Robin Sharma

  Life, Positive, Time

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.214, Jaico Publishing House

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• I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.

  Pablo Picasso

  Past, Thinking, Ideas

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• Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.

  Dodie Smith

  Real, Past, Thinking

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.265, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; for thinking of the past wakes regret and pain.

  Arthur Waley

  Pain, Regret, Past

  The Arthur Waley Estate, Arthur Waley (2012). “Chinese Poems”, p.177, Routledge

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• Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

  Craig Venter

  Moving, Past, Thinking

  YouTube Channel "Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science"/"Craig Venter - The Genius of Charles Darwin: The Uncut Interviews - Richard Dawkins", www.youtube.com. June 30, 2009.

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• I dreamed of myself in a dream, and told the dream, which was mine, as if it were another person's of whom I dreamed. Indeed what is life when thinking of the past, but dreaming of a dream dreamt by another who seems to be oneself?

  Stopford Brooke

  Dream, Past, Thinking

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