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We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]! — Zig Ziglar

It is at the time of spiritual wilderness experience that the devil begins to remind us about the past — Sunday Adelaja

It's never easy letting go. But if we don't learn the art of relinquishment, we'll never move forward to embrace the new relationships God has for us. — Mary E. DeMuth

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. — Ernest Dimnet

The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are. — Joe Meno

The past and the future are always present within us. — Thornton Wilder

OUr past doesn't define us. It prepares us. — Maralee McKee

The love of art in its many forms lives on and enables us to enjoy the past, the present, and look with confidence to the future. — John Kurtz

To forgive is a gift of God that permits us to let go of our past hurts. — Jean Vanier

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. — Eric Hoffer

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. — Johan Huizinga

God has presented this opportunity for us and we are stepping up to the plate. The pastor knows the area we work in and makes it much easier. — Robert Nugent Lynch

For when we read, don't we summon the past into the present? Hold out our hand and invite an author to sit with us for a time? — Ari Berk

Ideas define us, our past, our present, and most importantly, our future. — P.W. Cross

That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

We spend our whole lives running from our past, never realizing it's hitched to us - we can't ever outrun it. — Becca Fitzpatrick

Remember us, Belle," Cyllinus wept, "when the dangers are past and you sit upon the throne in Greenreach. Think of us. Do not forget me, little one. — Robin Jarvis

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. — Christian Nestell Bovee

When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us. — Aimee Bender

I will not let us be beings of regret. I know my past. What I want is my future. — Roshani Chokshi

The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. — Felix Adler

But it seemed like the more we advanced, the more the future looked impossible, making us return to the more radical times in the past. — Christian Lacroix

When we can't let go of the past, painful moments accumulate in us; metastasizing in our consciousness like an emotional cancer. — Bryant McGill

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal. — Lawrence Lessig

Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become. — Alyson Noel

forgiveness of others allows us to adjust our feelings towards the past, assuages our anger. Our — Alexander McCall Smith

Liberty was paid for by past sacrifices and given to us as a present gift. — Orrin Woodward

The past is the present, isn't it? It's the future, too. We all try to lie out of that but life won't let us. — Eugene O'Neill

he can't see past his own history to let us have ours. — Nicola Yoon

Though our past may shape us, it's our future that makes us. — Collette Scott

The past doesn't define us. It's what we do here and now, today, that does. This world was built on second chances. — Karina Halle

When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away. — Rabindranath Tagore

Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised. — Steve Aylett

Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women. — Warren Farrell

The past always sort of haunts us and perhaps inspires us in some ways. — Jennifer Gilmore

History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different. — Arthur Goldberg

We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past? — Jenna Blum

Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice — Nelson Mandela

When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor. — Martin Luther

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

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it. — Hilary Mantel

It is the link from the present to the past that gives us a spirit to address the future. — Midge Costanza

What takes us back to the past are the memories.
What brings us forward is our dreams. — Jeremy Irons

Blame anchors us into the past; a place we cannot change. Acceptance frees us to the future. — Bryant McGill

If we cannot find models in our past, we must try to build a future where they can exist, and devil take anyone who tries to tell us we can't. — Jordan L. Hawk

Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world. — Leo Tolstoy

Longing for the past keeps us looking back; but hoping in a brighter future keeps us looking up! EL — Evinda Lepins

The past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperon, standing between us and the newness of the present - the new chance. — Jeanette Winterson

The walls around us bear witness to lives past and present. — Jose Parla

Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future. — Augusto Boal

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. — Cormac McCarthy

We want to believe that we can continue doing what we've done for the past thousand years and not worry about the consequences coming back to us. — Sylvia Earle

There exists for each of us a geographical fulcrum, a place so saturated with memory that within its precinct the past is always present. — Justin Cronin

However much we would adore the past it will forever die in the future with us. — Sorin Cerin

We need the past around us for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that it provides a sense of direction. — Peter Mires

Credit and debt keep us fixated on the past and the future. — Mark Sundeen

We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us. — Alan Watts

Future will forgive us but are you ready to forgive your past? — J. Limbu

We invent what we need to get us by, but in doing so we are really continuing to hold on to the pain of yesterday. — Stephen Richards

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad. — Laini Taylor

All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The bad news is, our past defines us. However, the good news is, our future will someday be a part of that past. — Palle Oswald

The past is very useful, but only for what if can teach us about the present. The present is the rich thing. But I am very fond of the past. — Elizabeth Kostova

Words from the past: It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you. — Robert Breault

But isn't the human factor what connects us so deeply to our past? — Max Brooks

We all have to live with our past, but it doesn't have to define us. — Nalini Singh

Nothing corrupts like happiness. It makes us think that since we share this moment, we can also share the past. — Peter Hoeg

If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process. — Jim Rohn

Love is not the hurt from the past. Love is today. Love is patient enough to wait for the future to heal us. — C.H. Carter

Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with awareness. — James Thurber

American politicians who dwell on American exceptionalism only dishonor us by suggesting we play dumb to our past. — Jay Parini

If we choose to hold onto the past and cling to hurt, anger, or whatever, He can't set us free of it. He won't take those things by force. — Dawn M. Turner

We are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us just as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its future. — Amin Maalouf

trolley with Jenny's body on it was wheeled past us, surrounded — Rosamund Lupton

Every one of us possesses a gene predisposing us toward rivalry, competition, and fits of envy with any past, present, or future siblings. — Linda Sunshine

Nothing is ever behind us. — Roberto Bolano

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems. — Price Pritchett

The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time
maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right. — Leslie T. Chang

We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ... — Arthur C. Clarke

Dwelling on the sins of the past won't help us stop the evils of the present. — Andrew Mayne

The past is the anchor that weighs us down. — Don Trowden

Our language places us in a cultural continuum, linking us to the past, and showing our meanings also to future fellow-speakers. — Nicholas Ostler

Past experiences are doubtful food for Christians; a present coming to Christ alone can give us joy and comfort. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Children have neither past nor future;
they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. — Jean De La Bruyere

Put the past behind you and the future ahead where they belong and spend your time in the present with the rest of us. — Terry Brooks

Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains. — Carter G. Woodson

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace. — Bernard Baruch

Forgetting is the precious balm that helps us to travel on, past the depredations of memory. — Jesse Ball

I really believe that our past can really hold us back from growth, so the best thing that we can do is MOVE ON and NOT DWELL. — Bob Harper

If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us. — Helen Dunmore

Then let us be among those who hope that the future will be less cruel than the past. — Alice Hoffman

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday. — Chang-rae Lee

How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past? — John Steinbeck

We will never move out of the present and into the future with all God has planned for us if we cling to dwell in the past. — Sue Augustine

In the end, thought Sol, past logic and hope, it is dreams and the love of those dearest to us that form Abraham's answer to God. — Dan Simmons

Everything that happened in the past It was all necessary to bring us to where we are. — Anita Stansfield

God is the God of do-overs, and that should give us great hope. We really can be absolved of our past. — Lee Strobel

The book says we may be through with the past but the past ain't through with us. — Ricky Jay