Home / Topics / Our Pasts Quotes

Our Pasts Quotes

Browse 9 quotes about Our Pasts.

Our Pasts Quotes

“How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we give up on ourselves when our lives are just starting? Things get hard and we immediately back away and assume that means we’re going in the wrong direction, doing the wrong thing. If anything, when the waters get thick, that’s our sign to keep going.”

Life Beginning Ending Wrong Direction Assume Immediately Our Pasts Our Own Back Away

Book:Toxic

Source: Toxic

“Think of the most discouraging thing that you are currently carrying or the biggest project you can’t seem to tackle. Forget about how it happened, forget about how you got there, just look at the clock, and before that number changes, do one little thing to make it better. After you do, enjoy your moment of victory, and then do it again. In less than the time it takes you to blink, the past will burden you no more.”

Time Change Goals Procrastination Self Mastery Overcoming Obstacles Our Pasts Overcoming Negativity Changing Ourselves

Book:Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“Diamonds are held under tons and tons of pressure, extremely high temperatures of fire and shuffled under shifting of tectonic plates, for a long, long time! Yet when they come out from there and are put on display for their beauty; does anybody stop to evaluate the diamond based upon all the shit it's been through and say "Remember that disgusting hole it used to be in? I bet it was hell in there!" No, people don't remember where a diamond has come from; they just see the beauty of it now. But it wouldn't have become so beautiful, you know, if not for all of that! So why should we look at other people, or at ourselves and evaluate them/ourselves based upon their/our pasts? Shouldn't we forget that? And only see the beauty that is in front of our eyes? Whatever it was, it made you beautiful! And that is what matters!”

The Past Diamonds Forgetting The Past Our Pasts Seeing The Beauty Now The Beauty In Front Of You

Author:C. JoyBell C.

“Once your past no longer has the power to define you, your future is, quite literally, yours for the taking. Every single beautiful thing you could possibly want or imagine will be yours.”

Past Future Goals Desires Overcoming Fear Wants Our Pasts

Book:Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“Everything we think we know, everything we think we see, everything we believe we feel, taste, smell, or hear, everything we “remember” (our pasts), everything we want to happen (our futures), everything that has ever existed or will ever exist, only exists right now. All of these things are nothing more than electric signals being passed through our brains and bodies, right now. It is all energy flowing through us right now. “The past” exists only in our minds. We are the ones who bring it into reality. We are the ones who bring it into the present. We are the ones who make it “real”.”

Life Reality Motivational Past Time Energy Existence Future Procrastination Present Our Pasts

Book:Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“Mirrors have three purposes. To show you who you are. To show you who you were. And to show you who you want to be.”

Growth Reflection Mirrors Goals Personal Development The Future Our Pasts

Book:Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“Your past doesn't actually exist. What you think is your past is a tiny blip of electricity in your brain happening right now. And if that's happening now, what's actually happening right now isn't really happening for you at all. This is what it is meant when people say, "live in the present.”

Time Your Past Here And Now Living In The Present Our Pasts

Book:Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“If you don’t want your past to own you, try owning your past.”

Growth Responsibility Our Pasts

Book:Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“I think we are well-advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be. Otherwise they turn up unannounced.”

Ourselves Our Pasts

Author:Joan Didion