"Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope."

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"Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope."

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"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."

Golda Meir, Israeli Leader

Past, Present

"I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime."

Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian Writer

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"I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible."

Karl Jaspers, German Psychologist

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"I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Past, World

"I can't take back the past, but I can fight for the future."

Shannon A. Thompson, American Author

Past, Determination, Future, Hope, Resilience

"The past is a shadow; the present is real."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

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"The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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"I have been wounded like this since about half past eight this morning and I will tell you how it happened."

Francesco Borromini, Swiss Architect

Past, Will

"President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record."

Grace Napolitano, American Politician

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"Real success sometimes involves saying no to growth, expansion and gain."

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"Choosing beauty and love does not mean being uninformed or weak; it means you clearly see the ugliness, but choose love anyway."

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"All definitions are a part of the intellectual dissection and compartmentalization of control."

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"It is the garden of peace you seek, but it is not a tangible place that exists in the world - it is within. Go there, within."

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"All defensiveness stems from the need to be right and frustration over not being able to control others."

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"Peace does not mean an absence of conflict, because opposition, polarity and conflict are natural and universal laws."

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"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."

"I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime."

"I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible."

"I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it."

"I can't take back the past, but I can fight for the future."

"The past is a shadow; the present is real."

"The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them."

"I have been wounded like this since about half past eight this morning and I will tell you how it happened."

"President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record."

Explore more quotes by Bryant McGill

"Real success sometimes involves saying no to growth, expansion and gain."

"Choosing beauty and love does not mean being uninformed or weak; it means you clearly see the ugliness, but choose love anyway."

"All definitions are a part of the intellectual dissection and compartmentalization of control."

"Your hard journey has had a great purpose!"

"In my world, I believe in the great beauties, the highest of which, is love."

"The supreme hallmark of reality is balance."

"It is the garden of peace you seek, but it is not a tangible place that exists in the world - it is within. Go there, within."

"All defensiveness stems from the need to be right and frustration over not being able to control others."

"Peace does not mean an absence of conflict, because opposition, polarity and conflict are natural and universal laws."

"Mindfulness is that space where you are in touch with life-experience and you are brightly aware."