Own Past Quotes

45 quotes by 40 authors

You can victimize yourself by wallowing around in your own past. — Wayne Dyer
Home is the place you return to when you have finally lost your soul. Home is the place where life is born, not the place… — Karen Maitland
My works are an imitation of my own past and present. — Barbara Hepworth
Be not the slave of your own past. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Young people need something stable to hang on to - a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for their own future.… — Jay Kesler
Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has. — Agatha Christie
Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and… — Geoffrey Barraclough
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
You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the world not as… — Swami Vivekananda
If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with… — Elizabeth Kostova
Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of… — Kenzaburo Oe
Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then,… — Ron Chernow
Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.… — Walter Benjamin
Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a… — Andrew Gross
Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting… — Philip Rieff
Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings. — Cary Grant
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
The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
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

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