Top 64 Our Pasts Quotes
#1. For some reason the past - any of our pasts - was solidly off-limits. They were like the creepy rabbits in Watership Down who won't answer any questions beginning with "Where.
Tana French
#2. Right now each of us is a private oral culture. We rewrite our pasts to suit our needs and support the story we tell about ourselves. With our memories we are all guilty of a Whig interpretation of our personal histories, seeing our former selves as steps toward our glorious present selves.
Ted Chiang
#3. I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.
Christina Baker Kline
#4. That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory - hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.
Isaac Marion
#5. Of our pasts we seemed to know all we needed to know. Nothing was concealed, and though nothing was overtly revealed, all was known. In guilt and in forgiveness we counted ourselves equals, and always had. The sun himself envied us.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#6. We don't escape our pasts, you know," Madd said. He sounded defeated. "Never. We can never escape what we are."
"Maybe not. But I think we can escape what other people try to make of us. We can decide our fate for ourselves.
Tali Spencer
#7. Our pasts might shape us, but they weren't the end sum of us.
Jeaniene Frost
#8. Somewhere in the distance, the synchronic circles of our pasts had tripped a domino, and the steady whirr had grown till it now drowned with the roar of contingency
Craig Johnson
#9. I'd prefer to think that we aren't all so mercilessly bound to our pasts.
Brittany Cavallaro
#10. It's the pressing on toward the goal that is important, not simply trying to look perfect or be perfect. And it's also important to forget what is behind us, because we cannot change our pasts. We can, however, look forward and fix our eyes on Jesus as we listen to His direction.
Michelle Anthony
#11. We aren't who our pasts say we are. Damage doesn't define us. WE DEFINE OURSELVES.
Cynthia Eden
#12. We're all guilty of hiding things - it's the nature of the world today. We hide our feelings, we hide our pasts, we hide our true intentions. There's no way to know what's real anymore.
Suzanne Young
#13. In the end, we are what our pasts have made us and we live the lives the gods have chosen for us.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#14. Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#15. We colour the world,
Not with the darkness of our pasts,
But with the rainbow of our hope.
Jenim Dibie
#16. We all are bound to those around us by glue, and to our pasts, and sometimes we need to dissolve it... They say you need to pull all the pieces apart and stand back to see how they fit together. Deconstruction. But what if then they can't be put back together?
Amanda Green
#17. We are bound to our lives, to our pasts, to the laws of what we consider right or wrong, and suddenly, everything changes. We
Paulo Coelho
#18. And there it is: the core of everything. We're sisters. We know each other intimately. Our pasts, our secrets, our fears. It is a precious gift that we tried to throw away but can't really let go of.
Kristin Hannah
#19. Maybe becoming a spiritually healthy family is not about becoming a perfect family but rather following a perfect God together. And in doing so, to find peace with Him, our pasts, and our family members.
Michelle Anthony
#20. To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding. Alan Christoffersen's diary
Richard Paul Evans
#21. We are made of our pasts, and our pains, our joys and our losses. It's in the very fiber of our beings. Written on our hearts.
Jessi Kirby
#22. I am a collection of the obsolete, a relic of the damned, of the lost and strayed. I am the waylaid pieces of history which sank out of sight in all of our pasts. Such an accumulation of riffraff has never before been imagined.
Frank Herbert
#23. The stranger thought it might be God himself had forgotten much from our pasts, events far distant, events of the same day. And if a thing is not in God's mind, then what chance of it remaining in those of mortal men?
Kazuo Ishiguro
#24. Bruce, we've been defined by our pasts. Everyone is, but I just think some souls can take more than others. It's not their fault if they can't.'
I thought of my mother and couldn't have agreed more - and couldn't have loved Jenn more for saying it.
Jake Remington
#25. From key signature to coda, from downbeat to the sound of life's final fermata, our pasts set the tone for all that was, that is, and that ever would
be.
Jamie A. Hughes
#26. We are all affected by our pasts, but it is within our power not to let what we have done to dictate what we will do.
Kristin Cast
#27. If you leave, we lose and our pasts win.
Sylvia Day
#28. I don't think it's our pasts that define us, and it's not even our life's final destination. It's everything we do in between, the actual living, that creates who we are.
Jay McLean
#29. We are all what our pasts have made us," Catarina said. "The accumulation of thousands of daily choices. We can change ourselves, but never erase what we've been.
Cassandra Clare
#30. We all have our pasts and baggage, Mimi. It's our decision whether they fuck with our future.
Katie Ashley
#31. I'm supposed to learn something. A lesson, like in some teenybopper show. I stare at the door and wait for Miley Cyrus to come barreling in, singing tunelessly about our pasts being the key to our futures.
Rachel Harris
#32. Damien is my anchor to this world, and I am his. But if we are going to keep each other, we have to fight the shadows of
our pasts to move forward into our future.
J. Kenner
#33. If we were all perfect in our pasts, then we'd have nothing to hope for in our futures
Jenny Oliver
#34. we're not human any more. We've slipped out of our skins like lizards, shedding not just our pasts, but our futures.
Irvine Welsh
#35. What monstrous things, our pasts, especially when they have been lovely.
Colum McCann
#36. Our pasts so many times determine the value of what is happening today. Everybody is midway in their story.
Ron Carlson
#37. Keep your life in a positive perspective. We are not defined by our pasts
Ray J
#38. am a collection of the obsolete, a relic of the damned, of the lost and strayed. I am the waylaid pieces of history which sank out of sight in all of our pasts.
Frank Herbert
#39. For better or worse, our pasts and experiences are what define us. But they don't have to rule us. In time, all hurts can be forgiven. It's only when you add to them that they can't. - Nero
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#40. Old places fire the internal weather of our pasts. The mild winds, aching calms, and hard storms of forgotten emotions return to us when we return to the spots where they happened.
Siri Hustvedt
#41. It also reminds me that true power comes not from submission or gain, but from controlling my inner demons. Because our true enemies live within ourselves and feed from the lessons we failed to learn from our pasts.
J.C. Reed
#43. Our pasts haunt us all.
I regaled my beautiful audience of one with the tale of my life, not so much for entertainment, but for bold, barefaced, honest truth.
Ross Turner
#44. Our pasts shape us,Sam.None of us the person he or she used to be,it's true, but what we are still contains a great proportion of what we once were.Nothing,not even suffering the worst kind of tragedy,alters us completely.At core,we are set in stone.
James Lovegrove
#45. Life just is and the gods have their plans for us. We're powerless against them. In the end, we are what our pasts have made us and we live the lives the gods have chosen for us.
-Syn
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#46. My mom used to say that's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory - hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can build off our pasts and make futures.
Isaac Marion
#47. Even the good things from our pasts still only belonged in the past
Cora Carmack
#48. Our pasts always haunt us. But sometimes the ghosts are friendly, and the memories they bring with them sweet as well as bitter.
Kat Howard
#49. The world tells us that our pasts define us, trapping us, isolating us and giving us little hope for change or betterment. I say our pasts design us for what's to come and gives us a platform to be heroes in the lives of others.
Shawn M Mcnamara
#50. Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.
R.L. LaFevers
#51. Love blinds. We have both tried to give our sons, not what they needed, but what we needed. We've been so busy trying to rewrite our own pasts, we've blighted their present.
J.K. Rowling
#52. When you get into the series, the progression is much different. You actually have breathing room and the chance to sit down with each actor, which was a part of our process, to talk to them about their pasts.
Josh Gad
#53. Once your past no longer has the power to define you, your future is, quite literally, yours for the taking. Every single beautiful thing you could possibly want or imagine will be yours.
Dan Pearce
#54. No matter what storms come our way, we'll endure them. Together. Because our love is strong and unflappable. Love destroys demons and obliterates broken pasts. Love is ours - finally - and we fucking earned it.
K. Webster
#55. Your past doesn't actually exist. What you think is your past is a tiny blip of electricity in your brain happening right now. And if that's happening now, what's actually happening right now isn't really happening for you at all. This is what it is meant when people say, live in the present.
Dan Pearce
#56. To change the limitations of our personal pasts, our minds need a reason to change what we believe-and a good one at that.
Gregg Braden
#57. Acheron always says that our scars are there to remind us of out pasts, of where we've been and what we've gone through. But that pain doesn't have to drive or determine our future. We can rise about it if we let ourselves. It's not easy, but nothing in life ever is. -Sundown
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#58. Mirrors have three purposes. To show you who you are. To show you who you were. And to show you who you want to be.
Dan Pearce
#60. The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.
David Mitchell
#61. The books of our childhood offer a vivid door to our own pasts, and not necessarily for the stories we read there, but for the memories of where we were and who we were when we were reading them; to remember a book is to remember the child who read that book.
Lewis Buzbee
#62. The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built from emotionally colored memories.
Siri Hustvedt
#63. People don't get to our ages without having pasts. I'm more interested in the future.
Robyn Donald
#64. If you don't want your past to own you, try owning your past.
Dan Pearce
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