Your Past Quotes - Page 13

I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a second. It's very instinctive. What you do is a fraction of a second, it's there and it's not there. But in this fraction of a second comes your past, comes your future, comes your relation with people, comes your ideology, comes your hate, comes your love - all together in this fraction of a second, it materializes there.

Sebastiao Salgado

Photography, Hate, Past

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My son tells me, 'Do you realize you are the last one? The last person who was an eyewitness to the golden age?' Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply. You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. I could show you some, but I'd have to climb ladders, and I can't climb

Lauren Bacall

Memorable, Son, Thinking

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Upgrade your past by seeing it with appreciation.

Alan Cohen

Appreciation, Past, Seeing

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Unless you loosen the hold that your past has on you, your future will unfold in much the same way . . . it is time to begin writing a new script that accurately reflects the beautiful, powerful, and worthy being you are.

David Simon

Beautiful, Powerful, Writing

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Trust God's love. His perfect love. Don't fear He will discover your past. He already has. Don't fear disappointing Him in the future. He can show you the chapter in which you will. With perfect knowledge of the past and perfect vision of the future, He loves you perfectly in spite of both.

Max Lucado

Love You, Past, Visions Of The Future

Max Lucado (2007). “Lucado 3-in-1: Traveling Light, Next Door Savior, Come Thirsty”, p.158, Thomas Nelson Inc

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Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures have not passed through your mind, as through a sieve, and vanished, leaving not a rack behind, why then do you not, like a thankful guest, rise cheerfully from life's feast, and with a quiet mind go take your rest.

Lucretius

Death, Past, Leaving

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If you remember your past too well you start blaming your present for it. Look what they did to me, that's what caused me to be like this, it's not my fault. Permit me to correct you: it probably is your fault. And kindly spare me the details.

Julian Barnes

Past, Faults, Details

Julian Barnes (2010). “Talking It Over”, p.15, Random House

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Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.

T. D. Jakes

Encouraging, Past, Progress

Twitter post from Nov 10, 2016

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You are not your past, not your habits, not your compulsions. When you get to know who you are, anything becomes possible.

Geneen Roth

Monday, Morning, Past

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To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

Alan Cohen

Attitude, Past, Destiny

Alan Cohen (1990). “Joy Is My Compass: Taking the Risk to Follow Your Bliss”, Dolphin Communications Company

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When we find inspiration, we need to take action for ourselves and for our communities. Even if it means making a hard choice, or cutting out something and leaving it in your past.

Aron Ralston

Inspiration, Mean, Cutting

Aron Ralston (2010). “127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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Pain is a spiritual wake-up call showing you that there are oceans you have not yet explored. Step beyond the world you know. Reach for heights that you never thought possible. Go to places you have deemed off limits. This is the time to take off the shell of your past and step into the rich possibilities of your future. God does not give us dreams that we cannot fulfill. If you want to do something great with your life-whether it's to fall madly in love, become a teacher, be a great parent-if you aspire to do something beyond what you are doing now, this is the time to begin. Trust yourself.

Debbie Ford

Dream, Spiritual, Teacher

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As you continue the work of acknowledging and claiming the gifts of your past and standing in the power of your present, you are freeing up enormous reserves of creative energy.

Debbie Ford

Past, Creative, Energy

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When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.

T. D. Jakes

Hurt, Past, Air

T. D. Jakes (2013). “Are You Ready?: Nothing But the Blood of Jesus”, p.48, Destiny Image Publishers

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It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you’re capable of far more than you imagined. You live in this vast body called the Universe, which contains all the solutions and all the problems. Visit your soul; don’t visit your past. The Universe goes through many mutations and carries the past with it. We call each of those mutations a ‘life,’ but just as the cells in your body change and yet you remain the same, so time does not pass, it merely changes.

Paulo Coelho

Memories, Past, Cells

"Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

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No matter what your past has been, your future is spotless.

Hugh B. Brown

Forgiveness, Past, Matter

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Your past is your shadow. It has form but no substance, except in the places you allow it to touch you. (

Tananarive Due

Past, Shadow, Substance

Tananarive Due (2008). “Blood Colony: A Novel”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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Get bored with your past, it's over!

Caroline Myss

Past, Bored, Our Past

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How hard a thing is life to the lowly and yet how human and real is it? And all this life and love and strife and failure, - is it the twilight of nightfall or the flush of some faint-dawning day? The answer lies in each of us. For somewhere in your past ... somewhere some 100 years ago?there rose from the smoldering ashes of slavery?a proud and humble family who suffered and struggled with life. A family who found the strength to endure all the indignities of life in America, and that family had the hope for a taste of her bounties in the future.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Life And Love, Lying, Real

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When something goes wrong, what's the best course of action? To change your direction. The word repentance means to stop going one direction (your own way) and turn toward the right direction (God's way). Your past may be a part of who you are, but it certainly doesn't have to define your future. Or if you feel stuck and unable to change directions and move toward God, think of this transformation another way. The Bible says that God is the Potter and we are his clay (Jer. 18:2-6).

Craig Groeschel

Moving, Mean, Thinking

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The past is a trail you leave behind, much like the wake of a speedboat. That is, it's a vanishing trail temporarily showing you where you were. The wake of a boat doesn't affect it's course-obviously it can't since it appears behind the boat. So consider this image when you exclaim that your past is the reason you aren't moving forward.

Wayne Dyer

Inspirational, Moving On, Moving Forward

FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jan 16, 2012

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Every event has a purpose and every setback its lesson. I have realized that failure, whether of the personal, professional or even spiritual kind, is essential to personal expansion. It brings inner growth and a whole host of psychic rewards. Never regret your past. Rather, embrace it as the teacher that it is.

Robin Sharma

Spiritual, Teacher, Regret

Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.21, Jaico Publishing House

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You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them.

Iyanla Vanzant

Pain, Memories, Past

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People don't think of their office as a workplace anymore. They think of it as a stationary store with Danish. You want to get your pastry, your envelopes, your supplies, your toilet paper, six cups of coffee, and you go home.

Jerry Seinfeld

Funny, Work, Coffee

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Many have forgotten what we came here for,
Never knew or had a clue, so you're on the floor.
Just growin' not known' about your past...
Now you're lookin' pretty stupid while you're shakin' your ass.

Chuck D

Stupid, Rap, Past

Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

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