Past Quotes
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The Ojibways have great respect for the Bear. According to their legends, in the distant past the Bear had a human form and was in fact an ancestor of the Ojibways. Therefore he understands the Indian language and will never attack or fight any Indian if he is addressed properly.
Norval Morrisseau -
I had some wonderful dreaming meetings. I can't tell you specifically what they've been in the recent months. In the past they've been verbal kinds of messages that he needed to give me. Now they're more dreams of his presence.
Judy Collins
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We are kept from the experience of Spirit because our inner world is cluttered with past traumas . . . As we begin to clear away this clutter, the energy of divine light and love begins to flow through our being.
Thomas Keating -
Getting to the future is always held up by those trying to protect the past.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you know how they connect to each other by looking at their Facebook page. KGB ... used to torture in order to get this data.
Evgeny Morozov -
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Stephen Covey -
I don't want to sit and look at all the trophies. I don't want to live in the past -- I want to live now!
Mia Hamm -
When you focus upon lack in an attitude of complaining, you establish a vibrational point of attraction that then gives you access only to more thoughts of complaint. Your deliberate effort to tell a new story will establish a new pattern of thought, providing you with a new point of attraction from your present, about your past, and into your future. The simple effort of looking for positive aspects will set a new vibrational tone that will begin the immediate attraction of thoughts, people, circumstances, and things that are pleasing to you.
Esther Hicks
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One of the keys to learning for me has been to not get so hung up on the past. It's important to remember the past, but that doesn't mean you have to torture yourself with it by reliving it every single day.
Georges St-Pierre -
If we are to make the most of the opportunities ahead we need a bold break with the past.
Michael Gove -
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
William Faulkner -
In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.
Carolyn Wells -
The past is what the present is doing now.
Rowan Williams -
The Greeks really believed in history. They believed that the past had consequences and that you might be punished for the sins of your father. America, and particularly New York, runs on the idea that history doesn't matter. There is no history. There is only the never-ending present. You don't even have your family because you moved here to get away from them, so even that idea of personal history has been cut at the knees.
Christopher Bollen
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Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.
Ray Bradbury -
If you truly love someone, you don't judge them by their past. You leave it there. Just be happy that their future belongs to you.
Nishan -
You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.
Ray Bradbury -
I keep recycling and repackaging music that I've done in the past, as though I can't write anymore. Like, okay, I'm done with that. But I need to kind of prod myself again into come on, Herbie, get off your duff and start writing some new music.
Herbie Hancock -
Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.
Stanley Baldwin -
Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.
Alice Mattison
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In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives. My people feel this way in part because death does not separate us from our ancestors.
Miriam Makeba -
The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.
Terry Eagleton -
I've definitely seen people get angry or really uncomfortable with stuff I've made in the past. And my stand-up, if you could call what I do stand-up, is quite aggressive, too.
Brett Gelman -
She'd fallen into the best part of her past.
Sarah Addison Allen