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• Create your future from your future, not your past.

  ~ Werner Erhard Quotes

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• Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

  ~ John F. Kennedy Quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Change, John F. Kennedy, Future, Past, Life

• When you're used to getting just a piece of bread for a meal, you don't realize that you can ask for a plate of pasta. You have never seen a plate of pasta. You don't even know it exists. So, to ask for it is totally out of your reality. Hopefully, at some point, either someone shows you a plate of pasta, you read about it, or you hear about it enough so that it becomes real, and it's not just a fantasy anymore, and then you start thinking "Hey, I want that pasta."

  ~ Barbara De Angelis. Ph.D. Quotes

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• The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they were taught by men.

  ~ Wallace D. Wattles Quotes from The Science of Being Great

  Famous Quotes on: God, The Prophet, Past, Great

• …As the great Confucius said, “The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change.” Flow. But we keep looking back, don’t we? We cling to things in the past and cling to things in the present...Do you want to enjoy a symphony? Don’t hold on to a few bars of the music. Don’t hold on to a couple of notes. Let them pass, let them flow. The whole enjoyment of a symphony lies in your readiness to allow the notes to pass...

  ~ Anthony de Mello Quotes

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• Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren't real. They're just God's way of testing you. He's asking you, "Do you want to make it or not?"

  ~ Russell Simmons Quotes from Do You!

  Motivational Quotes on: God, Past, Path, Obstacle, Skin

• Once you uncover the history of this pattern and trace its roots, you will see that your reaction in the present moment is really a reaction from the past, a shadow character's attempt to protect you from reexperiencing an old emotional wound, which instead sabotages you in the present.

  ~ Connie Zweig Quotes from Romancing the Shadow

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Character, Emotion, Act, The Moment, Past, Reaction, Motion, History

• We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

  ~ Marianne Williamson Quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Love, Marianne Williamson, Past, Receive

• Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual's character. Now to no other man can its wisdom appear as it does to him, for every man must be supposed to see a little farther on his own proper path than any one else. Therefore just and wise men take umbrage at his act, until after some little time be past: then they see it to be in unison with their acts. All prudent men see that the action is clean contrary to a sensual prosperity; for every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• I had to learn to forgive myself, not to judge, but to learn from the past. They showed me how vital it is to accept, be truthful, and love myself. So I could do the same with others.

  ~ Marlo Morgan Quotes from Mutant Message from Down Under

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, Learn, Truth, Past, Give, Forgive