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  • You are not the product of your circumstances. You are a composite of all the things you believe, and all the places you believe you can go. Your past does not define you. You can step out of your history and create a new day for yourself. Even if the entire culture is saying, "You can't." Even if every single possible bad thing that can happen to you does. You can keep going forward.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Believe Quotes , Past Quotes
  • I am any man's suitor, If any will be my tutor: Some say this life is pleasant, Some think it speedeth fast, In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past. We laugh, we cry, we are born, we die. Who will riddle me the how and the why?
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Time Quotes , Past Quotes
  • We all live in the past, because there is nothing else to live in. To live in the present is like proposing to sit on a pin. It is too minute, it is too slight a support, it is too uncomfortable a posture, and it is of necessity followed immediately by totally different experiences, analogous to those of jumping up with a yell.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Past Quotes , Different Experiences Quotes
  • The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Learning Quotes , Past Quotes
  • Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Past Quotes , Soul Quotes
  • We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Past Quotes
  • In the past when money was given from government to government, there was no accountability, especially the World Bank loans. Nobody was held accountable for the misuse of World Bank loans. That is why it is important to channel some of the money through civil society groups.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Past Quotes , Accountability Quotes
  • Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Art Quotes , Past Quotes