Top 100 Quotes About Our Past
#1. The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#2. Mamma says if we stay so focused on our past failings, we won't be able to move beyond them and learn what we need to know.
Annette Bridges
#3. God is able to take the mess of our past and turn it into a message. He takes the trials and tests and turns them into a testimony.
Christine Caine
#4. We can't get better, none of us, unless we face our past.
Riley Hart
#5. But the Grace of God is so powerful that it utterly disregards our past and sees only the potential we have to become in Him.
Kevin King
#6. We owe it to our past futile sacrifices to continue making further futile sacrifices.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#7. It is our past that defines who we are and gives us the courage to progress into the future without fear
Robert L J Borg
#8. We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now.
David Richo
#9. I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
#10. Through the deeply theraputic practice of asana, we begin to purify our karmas, thereby healing our past relationships with others and reestablishing a steady and joyful connection with the Earth, which means all beings.
Sharon Gannon
#11. We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.
Theodore Roosevelt
#12. It's not our past which most determines the possibilities open to us, it's what we choose here and now to make happen in our present and future.
Nick Baylis
#13. Some of the hardest battles we fight are those against the demons of our past, over which we have no control.
Charles F. Glassman
#14. We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?
Robert Jackson Bennett
#15. Our past is not, as some fear, a series of events carved in stone that we must carry around for the rest of our lives ... but a kaleidoscope of experiences that, when viewed through different lenses, can 'color' (change) how we see our present and future.
Bill Crawford
#16. However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
J.C. Ryle
#17. Everyone in life has a story to tell, and sometimes there are things in our past we spend our lives running from. This book is dedicated to those who have retired their running shoes and found a piece of happiness they can call home.
Dannika Dark
#18. We all have to live with our past, but it doesn't have to define us.
Nalini Singh
#19. We all carry our past. But it is a case of getting on with your life and improving it, if you want to.
Vinnie Jones
#20. Ideas define us, our past, our present, and most importantly, our future.
P.W. Cross
#21. The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.
Lewis B. Smedes
#22. We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.
Glen Duncan
#23. Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.
Saint Augustine
#24. The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past.
Ruth J. Simmons
#25. Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures where we dare to face our past for the sake of our present.
Mary E. DeMuth
#26. By approaching everything with a sense of suspicion and struggle, we like to think we're in control of things. But in truth our past karma is simply playing itself out. Instead of struggling with it, however, we can choose to dance.
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
#27. Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past.
Malcolm X
#28. Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
Cormac McCarthy
#29. Even if Matt loved me for the rest of his life, and never so much as blinked in the direction of another woman, there'd still be pain in our past. Fear that we might let each other down again.
Aimee L. Salter
#30. In Africa I discovered what the true purpose of a musician is. We are historians, and it is our purpose to tell the people the true story of our past, and to extend a better vision of the future.
Randy Weston
#31. When you strip away the rhetoric, preservation is simply having the good sense to hold on to things that are well designed, that link us with our past in a meaningful way, and that have plenty of good use left in them.
Richard Moe
#32. Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.
Sylvia Earle
#33. Our past might have been rocky, but I think our future's inevitable.
Lynetta Halat
#34. Mindfulness is focusing on the present with intent, being in the present instead of allowing ourselves to be run on automatic pilot by our past-based default programming. Being
Steven Jay Fogel
#35. Blaming our past for not taking action to change our destiny for good is taken from a weak man's playbook...
Assegid Habtewold
#36. I am not sure that digging in our past guilts is a useful occupation for the very old, given that one can do so little about them. I have reached a stage at which one hopes to be forgiven for concentrating on how to get through the present.
Diana Athill
#37. These are the moments that make the dot-to-dot pictures of our past; everything else is simply filling in the gaps.
Nathan Filer
#38. In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is the fertile ground of creativity and freedom.
Deepak Chopra
#39. Indeed we all try to raise our children as if our past experiences are important for their future, but they rarely are.
Nelson DeMille
#40. Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.
Marianne Williamson
#41. STG and the Ramshorn Theatre are a vital part of Glasgow's rich cultural history. To abandon them now is to abandon not only our past, but our future.
Peter Capaldi
#42. How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding.
Sherman Alexie
#43. We forget most of our past but embody all of it.
Adam Begley
#44. Every scar tells a story. Every change is proof of something that you've overcome. It's evidence of our past together.
J.C. Reed
#45. In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.
Brennan Manning
#46. Only if we understand our past, can we move forward to a brighter future.
Barbara Post-Askin
#47. If the Modern Technical Age is to remain human, it cannot overlook the trust that our ancestors have left with us. Our past cannot be mere matter for a more or less curious utilitarianism, like iron deposits, say, on the moon.
Marshall G.S. Hodgson
#48. How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?
John Steinbeck
#49. How many movements began when an aesthetic encounter indelibly changed our past perceptions of the world? It was an abolitionist's print, not logical argument, which dealt the final blow to the slave trade - the broadside of Description of a Slave Ship (1789).
Sarah Lewis
#50. God's forgiveness is not just a casual statement; it is the complete blotting out of all dirt and degradation of our past, present, and future.
Billy Graham
#51. The insecurities from your past are not the truth in your life either. As we look at our doubts and develop confident hearts, it's going to be important to recognize negative emotions from our past that keep us from living confidently in our present and future.
Renee Swope
#52. Powerful motivation for believing God in our present is intentionally remembering how He's worked in our past.
Beth Moore
#53. I can't breathe," she said. "I feel like I'm drowning in a gray sea, like they're flooding the whole city, washing away our past and people, dashing everything from the face of the earth." Jammed
Diane Ackerman
#54. At each point in our lives, we are at a crossroads. We are the fruit of our past and we are the architects of our future ... If you want to know your past, look at your present circumstances. If you want to know your future, look at what is in your mind.
Matthieu Ricard
#55. I think we can remember our past without valorizing parts of our past that we ought to see as wrong.
Russell D. Moore
#56. Perfect joy could not be joy alone but must be a joy that somehow contains our past grief and sadness and longing.
Amy Alznauer
#57. If we get it wrong, if we repeat the mistakes of our past, the consequences could be devastating. But if we get it right, the potential benefits to the future of humanity are astonishing.
Stephen L. Petranek
#58. We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.
Steve Maraboli
#59. Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.
Paul Eldridge
#60. Every Adventure Has a Back Story. When we look at our past relationships, often there are one or two we may tend to go back to in our minds, and we see them through the magic of the seven veils.
Barbara Becker Holstein
#61. The magnitude of any one day is compromised by its passing quickly into the next, a mere moment in time which soon fades into the collective memory of our past.
Timothy W. Tron
#62. We are wearing Karma everyday..sewed by our past nor yesterday
Jaycynth
#63. Then she says something about the universe sending us pieces of our past selves to embrace so we can heal them and I must be drunker than I thought because I don't follow her at all.
Roan Parrish
#64. We have all examined our past critically and are very much aware of even the unpleasant things. Now, we need to look at what we plan to do with the lessons we have learned from the past.
Heinz Fischer
#65. The two most important phrases in the human language are "If only" and "Maybe someday". Our past mistakes and our unrequited longings. The things we regret and the things we yearn for. That's what makes us who we are.
Will Ferguson
#66. An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
Haile Selassie
#68. The Akashic Records are the impressions from all of our past lives that are available within our causal body.
Frederick Lenz
#69. If we have regrets about our past, this would help us to realize about our wrong doings and make us apologize to others.
Saaif Alam
#70. that is real in our past is the love we gave and the love we received.
Marianne Williamson
#71. The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.
Kailash Satyarthi
#72. Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.
Stephen Gardiner
#73. We are citizens who love to fake life than dig deep into our reality to discover the truth and make amends and correct our own wrongdoings, because we are reluctant to learn from our past.
Nilantha Ilangamuwa
#74. Our past brought us to where we are now. If we ignore part of it, we are ignoring part of ourselves.
Shay Savage
#75. Let's burn our past down
and make something better
from its ashes.
Kirk Diedrich
#76. The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us; it is our own in a way that nothing else in life is. In a word, we are our past; we do not cling to it, it clings to us.
Grace King
#77. Our past is a fictional representation, and the only thing we can be even somewhat sure of is what is happening now. It encourages us to live in the moment and not to place too much importance on our past. It forces us to accept that the best time of our lives, and our memory, is right now. And
Julia Shaw
#78. Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.
Eric Liu
#79. Our scars make us know that our past was for real
Jane Austen
#80. It's not a house to us. It's a home. And it's not a home, it's s way of life. Our summertime happens here. This house is part of our past, it's our present, it'll be our future. It's who we are.
Elin Hilderbrand
#81. New Year's resolutions often fail because toxic emotions and experiences from our past can sabotage us or keep us stuck with the same old thoughts, patterns and regrets.
Debbie Ford
#82. When we walk with knowledge in our present and wisdom from our past we are able to discern how to prepare for tomorrow. HS/el
Evinda Lepins
#84. The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'
Neale Donald Walsch
#85. Knowingly or unknowingly, our past disappointments guide us positively and or negatively in our present day journey of life, based on how we see and use the lessons from our past!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#86. The narrative that each person tells herself and others is a big part of how we construct our self-identities. It's one of the most important ways that we make sense of our past and present and understand our hopes for the future.
Peg O'Connor
#87. Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack.
Desmond Tutu
#88. We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our past
in the traditional society which produced us.
Julius Nyerere
#89. The fact was, all that stuff was back in our past, and we were dealing with a very, very different present. Somewhere in a parallel universe, Trip and I were happy together. Just not in this one.
T. Torrest
#90. If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.
Margaret Mead
#91. We can try to run," he said. "But one day we must all face our past.
G.R. Mannering
#92. We are who we choose to be, so we cannot change our past nor predict our future, but we can live each day to the fullest by sharing love and laughter with friends and associates.
Irma Schettini Caiazzo
#93. All of our lives are important, even the parts of our past that we have ignored, downplayed, or forgotten. If we open the door to our past, we will discover God there, accompanying us in both happy and sad moments.
James Martin
#94. But isn't the human factor what connects us so deeply to our past?
Max Brooks
#95. We are not victims of our past, we are victors of our future
Tina Mitchell
#96. To move out of the patterns of our past and create the future we want we must pass through the gateway of the present
David Schlussel
#97. It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure
Martial
#98. AND IF WE ARE TO STRIVE FOR A BETTER FUTURE, MUSTN'T WE BE FAMILIAR AND RECONCILED WITH OUR PAST?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#99. 'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.
Edward Young
#100. Action triggers reaction.
An object somehow responds when we observe it.
We just assume that we do objective.
In fact, unconsciously we only want to see some parts
of the object which do not evoke the bitter memories of our past.
Toba Beta
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