Quotes and Sayings About Our Past
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Owning our past allows us to own our future.
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Our past is a novel that we are constantly revising.
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It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.
-- Farley MowatSource : Farley Mowat (1997). “Aftermath: Travels in a Post-War World”, Roberts Rinehart Pub
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You can be aware of your past without being it.
-- Geneen Roth -
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... we are the products of our past. ... a web of complexities.
-- Janet Leigh -
How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?
-- John Steinbeck -
STOP looking back!!!! When your past calls do NOT pick up!! it has nothing new to say.
-- Joseph Simmons -
It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.
-- Joyce Meyer -
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Don't let your past dictate who you are, but let it be part of who you will become.
-- Louis MandylorSource : "Fictional character: Nick Portokalos". "My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Nia Vardalos: Toula Portokalos", www.imdb.com. 2002.
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Your past is not your past if it's still impacting your present.
-- Pete Wilson -
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We don't have to be defined by the things that we did or didn't do in our past- Four
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Keep your life in a positive perspective. We are not defined by our pasts
-- Ray J -
We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?
-- Robert Jackson BennettSource : Robert Jackson Bennett (2014). “City of Stairs”, p.81, Broadway Books