Your Past Quotes - Page 3

• Buddhists believe that you are who you are today is because of who you have been in all your past lives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Believe, Past

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• Baptism was to put a line of demarcation between your past sins when you are buried with Him by Baptism-you are burying your past sins-eradicating them-putting a line in the sand saying that old man is dead and he is no longer alive any more and I rise up to walk in the newness of life.

  T. D. Jakes

  Past, Men, Baptism

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• Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about.

  Bill Whittle

  Book, Past, Hammers

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• If your doctor has warned you to avoid excitement, do not turn to exploring your past lives as a soothing and sedentary occupation.

  Herbie Brennan

  Healing, Past, Doctors

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• No matter how painful your past has been, you have made it through.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Past, Matter, Painful

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• You can't change your past but you can change you destiny but deciding for Christ.

  Billy Graham

  Past, Destiny, Choices

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• That's my sole purpose in life is to sit here today and tell you that you can do this, in any life. You can do this in one of your past lives, in a future life, or right now. I prefer now.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, Purpose

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• Do not die in the history of your past hurts and past experiences, but live in the now and future of your destiny.

  Michelle Obama

  Hurt, Past, Destiny

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• What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

  Sai Baba

  Inspirational, Future, Past

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• You know the worst: your wills are fickle,
  Your values blurred, your hearts impure
  And your past life a ruined church--
  But let your poison be your cure.

  Louis MacNeice

  Suicide, Heart, Past

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.3, Faber & Faber

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• Life is like a piece of string with a lot of knots tied in it. The knots are the karma you're born with from all your past lives, and the object of human life is to try and undo all those knots. That's what chanting and meditation in God consciousness can do. Otherwise you simply tie another ten knots each time you try to undo one knot. That's how karma works.

  George Harrison

  Karma, Past, Ties

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• You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Aug 14, 2014

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• 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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• Whatever your past may have been, your future is still spotless.

  Boonaa Mohammed

  Past, May, Your Future

  Twitter post from Sep 15, 2015

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• The worst is when someone in your past trumps the person in your present, and you think to yourself: if I'd known this, then maybe I wouldn't have let him go.

  Emily Giffin

  Past, Thinking, Let Him Go

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Baby Proof: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan

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• You can be happy if you are willing to let go of your past and leave yourself unencumbered so you can fly freely.

  Chris Prentiss

  Letting Go, Past, Willing

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.40, BookBaby

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• You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.

  Ann Brashares

  Past, Remember, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Feb 15, 2013

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• This sound meditation is gentle and subtle, but its benefits are extensive, in that it allows you to gently release tension that arises from your present circumstances, and if you choose to work with it further it can help release negativity from your past.

  Tom Kenyon

  Past, Meditation, Negativity

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• Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.

  Wayne Dyer

  Jobs, Past, Weather

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• Your past determines your future unless you’re clearly moving past your self and responding to what you know in your heart.

  John de Ruiter

  Moving, Heart, Past

  "No Longer Determined by Your Past". Interview, johnderuiter.com. July 1, 2014.

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• You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

  Khalil Gibran

  Giving, Tree, May

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Even after the greatest defeats, the depressing thought of being a failure is best combated by taking stock of all your past achievements.

  Hans Selye

  Depressing, Failure, Past

  hans selye (1974). “stress without distress”

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• When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say.

  Lionel Richie

  Past, Answers, Nothing New

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• Meditation is the only magic that can help you to be free from the mind, can help you to be free from yourself, your past and all the burden of the past.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Meditation, Magic

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• Let go of your past, but never forget what it has taught you.

  Boonaa Mohammed

  Letting Go, Past, Taught

  Twitter post from Jan 16, 2014

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