Our Own Past Quotes
- We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them. — Timothy B. Tyson
- Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great… — Theodore Dalrymple
- Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves… — John Thorn
- We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are… — Swami Vivekananda
- The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in… — C.S. Lewis
- Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to… — John F. Kennedy
- Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage… — Charles Caleb Colton
- And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect… — Marcel Proust
- We should be inspired by our past and be confident about our future. We should not harvest negative feelings from our own past and cultivate… — Joseph Benziger