Your Past Quotes - Page 11

• If you've ever had to recall your past in some way and you open a drawer of old photographs that your parents kept, there are always pictures of you smiling and charming, and then a bunch of people you don't know who they are. Could be aunts, uncles, could be the postman for all you know. Who are these people? Your parents are never in the picture, because they are the ones taking them. So you've got these unrelated images that are disconnected from your memories.

  Gail Zappa

  Uncles, Memories, Aunt

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I write about how I was attracted to stripping because I didn't feel comfortable with my body, for instance, but there could be plenty of not-so-good reasons why I chose to go into journalism, too. Maybe someone had a trauma in childhood and it led them to become a nurse, or a lawyer, but because people stigmatize sex work they try to find a traumatic moment in your past and say, "There!"

  Craig Seymour

  Sex, Writing, Past

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning - why did your parents pick that particular one?

  Kelley Armstrong

  Past, Names, Parent

  "Secrets Blog Tour: Interview with Kelley Armstrong & Giveaway". Interview with Melissa Montovani, www.yabookshelf.com. October 1, 2015.

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• A friend is someone who understand your past, believes in your future, and accepts you today just the way you are.

  Unknown

  Believe, Past, Today

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• Gaga and Stefani are my nicknames. I guess when people meet me for the first time and call me Stefani, it bothers me. Because it's something that's reserved for only the people who are closest to me. It's not because I don't like my given name; it's that I became somebody else. I became somebody else for a reason, you know. This is part of what my message is - you can become whoever you want to be, to escape your past.

  Lady Gaga

  Past, People, Reason

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• You need to realise that, if you want to go on, you have to work hard. If you dwell too much on your past successes and say "well, I have won nine world titles and more than 100 races", you'd rather stay home. The sport, your rivals, the tyres, your motorcycle, everything changes so instead you need to work more to be stronger. If you don't, you're finished.

  Valentino Rossi

  Sports, Hard Work, Home

  Source: supermotoo.blogspot.com

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• You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.

  Eric Cantona

  Memories, Past, Prisoner

  "Eric Cantona arrested and cautioned after assault in London" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2014.

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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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• I believe that you go through your past and you learn what you learn for whatever reason. I'm just glad I'm not making fifteen-year-old mistakes at twenty-six - I got that out of the way.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Mistake, Believe, Past

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Remember that everyone you see and every situation you find yourself in has come from inside of you; you have created your reality by how you have treated others in your past.

  Sharon Gannon

  Past, Reality, Finding Yourself

  "Chanting Compassion with David Life & Sharon Gannon". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Past, Come Up, Surface

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• Sometimes God redeems your story by surrounding you with people who need to hear your past so it doesn't become their future.

  Jon Acuff

  Blessing, Past, People

  FaceBook post by Jon Acuff from Jun 22, 2011

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• There is a lot to look at when you are serious about transformation. You look at everything you've ever done, every circumstance you've ever been in, cleaning up everything in your past. Reconciling, forgiving others, forgiving yourself. It's a lot of work, actually.

  Marianne Williamson

  Past, Forgiving, Looks

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Have you not noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than your harsh ones?

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Kindness, Past, Harsh

  "The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time".

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• What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Travel, Carpe Diem, Past

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• When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Past, Stories, Invisible Monsters

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.61, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only - finding out that there is set down in some old book somebody just like me, and to know that I shall only act her part; making me sad, that's all. The best is not to remember your nature and your past doings have been just like thousands' and thousands', and that your coming life and doings'll be like thousands' and thousands'.

  Thomas Hardy

  Book, Past, Long

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)”, p.158, Diversion Books

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• As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men. She may be right.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Mother, Mistake, Past

  Sarah Strohmeyer (2008). “Sweet Love”, p.28, Penguin

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• Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is.

  Sherman Alexie

  Past, Skeletons, Watches

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• Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Change, Past, Looks

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• Your life right now is a reflection of your past thoughts. That includes all the great things, and all the things you consider not so great. Since you attract to you what you think about most, it is easy to see what your dominant thoughts have been on every subject of your life, because that is what you have experienced. Until now!

  Rhonda Byrne

  Life, Past, Thinking

  Rhonda Byrne (2012). “The Magic”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• These are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you; your future is a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don’t wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is. Now, these skeletons are made of memories, dreams, and voices. And they can trap you in the in-between, between touching and becoming. But they’re not necessarily evil, unless you let them be.

  Sherman Alexie

  Dream, Memories, Past

  FaceBook post by Sherman Alexie from Jan 18, 2017

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• There's the life you live and the life you leave behind. but what you share with someone else - especially someone you love - that's not just how you bury your past. It's how you write you future.

  Brad Meltzer

  Writing, Past, Someone You Love

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• You aren't your past, you are probability of your future.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Past, Your Future, Probability

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• What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.

  David Rakoff

  Memories, Past, Zoom

  FaceBook post by David Rakoff from Mar 05, 2017

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